So he was off by a few decades. Happens to the best of us. Visions of the future don't always show a calendar, you know.
True, if they were indeed, just visions. But I assumed when the person predicting invoked a range of "5 to 10 years", that he was, indeed, putting an outside limit on the project.
Interestingly enough, I saw the same thing on the news about 10 years later and remembered that day in class, so many years before. At the time, television was a big part of my life, and I was looking forward to that milestone. Ironically, now I couldn't care much less.
My point is, sometimes people just spout off a big number of years, thinking that by the time 10 years has passed, everyone will have forgotten that they ever made the statement. Then if it does come to pass, they'll say, "See, I told you it would happen!"
After all, I certainly have no idea who actually said it. I just know that someone did say it--twice, and I remember it.
I distinctly remember sitting in my 4th grade classroom, in 1970, and listening to the teacher read an article to the class, telling us about "the future".
One of the breaking news items was that scientists were working on making televisions that could "hang on a wall like a picture frame", and we would see it homes within 5 to 10 years.
I won't hold my breath on this holographic TV thing. I don't even think I'll bite on the "within our lifetime" bait at the start of the article.
I always find it comical (or sad, depending on how you look at it) to see how ignorant the Slashdot crowd can be.
There are over 30,000 different "denominations" of "Christianity", and the vast majority of them, including Catholicism, make no dogmatic statement at all about the "how" of our coming to be (there are some groups that do, yes). That is left to the realm of science.
It irritates me to no end to see ignorant statements being modded up as "Informative" or "Insightful".
The Manhattan project was one of the real success stories in U.S. history. Regardless of how anyone might feel about the politics of "the bomb", we put a huge amount of money, manpower, and other resources into being the first to harness the military power of the atom, because we HAD to. It was a case of "victory at any price/failure is not an option."
If we would have just taken the money that has been spent on military management of our energy problems, we'd all be driving solar powered Ford Exploiters that cost nothing to run as long as the sun continues to show up for about half the day, every day.
If I'm not mistaken, there is a simple way to fight back. FTA:
"Chertoff said that in instances where a particular state doesn't seek a waiver, its residents will have to use a passport or a newly created federal passport card if they want to avoid a vigorous secondary screening at airport security."
They list what they want you to do, but if you choose to do it your own way, you just put up with the "vigorous secondary screening." Granted, I don't like the sounds of that myself, but if everyone simply refused to get the silly passport, their plan would crumble, no?
is not even funny how slow all of those Honda ricers are. Though for me, I stop at the speed limit. You must pull some serious g's when you hit the speed limit on the highway.
To the extent that Google has "forced" the industry in this respect, it helps users, and it helps Google. People want more storage, and Google is smart to provide it. If there are enough people who feel that they really need a ton of storage, they will follow the provider that offers it.
Someone like me, on the other hand, who finds 2GB to be more way more than enough, will hit a point where they are not inclined to switch to, say, Yahoo! Mail, from the great feature set of gmail, simply for more storage. If the user doesn't feel the benefit, no amount of extra storage will steal them away.
If I'm in the minority, and the reality is that most people just want more, and more, and more storage, then those users will follow the big storage provider, and the remaining providers will continue to try to catchup by offering more storage to get the eyeballs.
Well, one thing is, they'll never expire so long as you keep buying minutes. So, after 3 or 4 months if you haven't "recharged" your minutes they'll usually terminate your service.
Well, I've not seen anything that requires me to buy more minutes on a regular basis either, and in fact, I even ran the perfect case scenario past a sales rep, which was, "So, if my father, for example, who doesn't like the idea of spending money on something he would rarely use, such as a cell phone, were to get a cheap TDMA phone on eBay for say $40, and then just use the free 35 minutes you give him, and only use it in case he really needs it, and just made a 1 minute call every 2 months, that would be ok? Then when those 35 minutes are almost gone, from making a one minute call every 2 months for almost 6 years, then he could recharge for $5, right?" and the rep said, "Sure, you could do that, no problem." That's when I signed up, and I've not had a problem since. It's been almost 3 months. We'll see if you're right.
Watch out for a gotcha. Read the fine print. Many of the pre-paid plans expire at 24 months regardless of usage. It changes the price of the paging service if you bought a $100 pre-pay.
I don't see any such fine print with Beyond Wireless. They very clearly say, and my experience so far seems to support "Your Minutes NEVER EXPIRE" (their gratuitous exclamation points omitted).
If you can point me at something different, I'd appreciate knowing the catch. But as I said, so far it seems to be a great deal, and I've paid next to nothing to have a cell phone since I've found them.
Having said that, there are a couple of small things that are annoying to me. They first told me I could port my old cell number, then they said they couldn't, that they'd have to give me a new number, and after all was said and done, what I had to accept was a phone number that is no where near where I live (I live in Washington NOT D.C. and my cell number is a Texas number). But for outgoing calls, it doesn't matter. All minutes are created equal.
I could be wrong, but this is my impression about what is happening with TDMA, at least with AT&T/Cingular:
They are transitioning to GSM nationwide here in the U.S. but they have a pretty hefty investment in their cell towers in TDMA equipment. So are they just throwing it out the window? Nope. They are reselling TMDA to at least one company, who is offering pre-paid cell service for bargain prices. The company that I know about is Beyond Wireless.
It works like this. You get yourself a TDMA phone, contact Beyond Wireless, they walk you through programming it, and give you 35 minutes free. Then at any time, you can log onto their website with a credit card and get a PIN code for just about any increment of minutes ($5, $10, $20, etc. up to $100). The bigger the increment you buy, the cheaper it is per minute, for 14.2 cents a minute down to 10 cents a minute.
The great thing about it is that you get AT&T's big footprint, albeit their old TDMA footprint, and your minutes never expire, as long as you use at least one minute every two months--pretty easy to do.
Another great thing is that incoming text messages are free. So in effect, it's a free text pager, as long as you use that one minute every two months. So, for 14.2 cents every two months, you can keep a pager going:)
Bad news-- I am suspecting that the TDMA coverage will continue to get worse and worse, as equipment fails, it will not be replaced. That's just my suspicions, based on what I've seen.
For now, it's worked great for me. I bought a phone for about $40, and haven't used more than $5 in minutes over the course of several months.
Since I have family in Mexico, I'm always trying to find the absolute cheapest way to RELIABLY call internationally. I've found cheaper methods than what I'm going to describe, but this is what you risk when you go TOO cheap (and believe me, you're talking to the King of Cheap):
- Dropped calls - Low quality connection - Recurring fees for doing nothing other than patronizing the fools, which include things like:
- Connection charge ($1.95 usually, but often more, sometimes less, for every call you make--note, sometimes this is really a bad charge because you get disconnected because of a bad connection that they provide you, and then YOU have to pay another connection charge when you have to call the person back again)
- Monthly charges ($2.95/month to be part of the program, etc.)
- Maintenance charges (they subtract money from your account every month/week/day until your account/card is dry) - Contracts that you have to cancel - Being on their mailing list and/or having your address sold - Poor or non-existent customer service, should it be required--and with the poor connections where you have to pay a high per-connection charge, it can be very annoying to find that after two or three dropped connections, your $5 card is used up, and then you call customer service and they tell you "oh dear how sad" - Etc.
I like simple. I like cheap. I like reliable. I like being able to cut and run if I don't like what they're doing to me. And believe me, there are a lot of outfits out there that will do it to you. So what I'm going to tell you about here is just about the optimal mix that I've come up with (at least to Mexico--I imagine that it's comparable for other countries):
Onesuite.com -- They have the lowest rates within the U.S. and to other countries that I've seen. You can get started with as little as a $10 charge to your credit card to fund your account, and if you don't like the service, you just don't put any more money on the account. Abandon them. You never hear from them again. It acts like a calling card. When it's out of money, that's it. It's all done online, although they've added a toll-free number for recharging your account. Online, you have access to your call history and a bunch of other cool features like not having to enter PIN numbers from phones that you specify, speed dialing, subaccount with their own PINs (give someone else their own PIN so you can keep the calls seperate for accounting), live customer service, etc. It's a great company. I don't know how they do it, but because they DO do it, I'm a customer.
Now, if you REALLY want to go cheap (like me), you can look into www.nobelcom.com. They have cards that you have to buy $20 at a time--actually, $40 at a time because if you buy less than $40 worth of cards they add a processing fee of something like $4 as I recall. That sucks. I'm not thrilled about plopping down that much, but they've proven themselves with me now, at least for the first $10 on my first $20 card with them. The good thing about this card (at least the one that I get for calling Mexico) is this:
- There is no expiration on the minutes - The cost per minute is 2 (2 cents) cheaper to Mexico per minute than Onesuite, which is as I said, cheaper than anywhere else I've seen - They round minutes to the SECOND rather than to the minute, to 3 minute or 6 minutes (or more, as some are) It doesn't sound like much, but that rounding can add up to a lot of minutes lost, especially if you make a lot of short calls! And the higher your cost per minute, the more significant this feature becomes. - There are no maintenance fees at all - No connection fees - The card is rechargable
nobelcom.com also has other cards that are even cheaper for calling Mexico, but they have maintence charges and/or connection charges, etc. The cheaper cards might actually be better for some people. If you tend to call, for example, less frequently but talk for a long time, you might want o
As often as not, traffic control devices in the U.S. are in place to generate revenue, not necessarily for reasons of safety.
The National Motorist Association (here in the U.S.) is all over this kind of discussion. I've been a member since the early 1980's and in fact became a life member after a few years. The guy who started it is still at the helm and is zealous about protecting driver's rights. I like to describe their organization like this: The NMA is to drivers as the NRA is to firearms owners.
The NMA has a link on their website to some information about traffic lights:
http://www.geocities.com/jusjih/trafficlightsign al s.html
I found the above link on looking at the NMA's website (http://www.motorists.org). Their website isn't bleeding edge cool, but has a lot of good information for drivers.
And at the risk of turning this into a plug for them, I'd like to say that I highly recommend that anyone who is concerned about their rights as a driver, that you check ou their website. The NMA was the #1 driving force, if not the sole force in getting the ridiculous 55 MPH repealed a few years back. I know that most everyone in the U.S. is happy for that. Check out their website at http://www.motorists.org
I heard Chris Proctor (guitarist) tell a story that went something like this. I don't remember the exact words, but you'll have to trust that the punchline is what is important: "A quality guitar owes much of its sound to the large sheet of wood on the back of the guitar. A well known guitar maker was saving a particular pristine piece of such wood for a one special client who was thus far unidentified. When I met with them to get my next guitar, that piece of wood was taken out of it's special storage place in my honor and when the guitar was finally complete, I picked it up and played it a bit. It was indeed an exquisite instrument, and I resolved to use it in public for the first time at my next concert. I rushed off to the airport with the guitar in it's special case, checked it and my luggage and we were off to our destination. Upon arriving, I went to retrieve my luggage and the guitar, only to be greeted by an airline representative, saying that there had been a problem with my luggage."
You guessed it. A forklift tine had been run right through the guitar, destroying it.
By the way, check out Chris Proctor's music if you haven't.
I live fairly close to a number of farms that grow trees specifically for paper production. They aren't what you would expect. The trees are basically just cottonwood trees, which have long been thought of more or less of as a weed. They plant very dense fields of these trees that grow to about 60-70' tall in about 8 years when they are 7" in diameter and harvested. It's almost scary to look at a field of them. The trees grow oftentimes right up to the edge of the road, and in a very short distance you could be in the middle of a dark forest, not knowing which way to turn. Take a look at this link for an idea of what these plantations look like):
I've been getting spams lately that seem to be trying to get around the highly effective statistical solutions, such as SpamAssassin, that have been implemented. Spammers seem to be adding random, or possibly even carefully selected dictionary words to skew their statistical rating. Here is an example from the several I've received lately--has anyone seen information about this on/. or elsewhere?
[spammers irritating message snipped]
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:42:34 -0500
No Thanks
beatify
sacred atom drank deprecate cathodic thermionic sherman delinquent hanley swum wooster asteroidal bilayer haiti saudi wink bijective reserpine baronial gloss ambrose threadbare chianti predatory earmark bilingual angora palazzi chartres alveolar phosphate civet radish barricade diem laurie minutem! en crusty
I tend to think that it's too little too late. I gave up on RealNetworks long ago because of all of the viruslike behavior and have advised anyone that I come in contact with to just say no to Real content.
I've always had a problem with the saying "You get what you pay for." It's more accurate to say "You don't get what you don't pay for."
And remember, lest people say, "But that's not true, because look at what great software I get from the open source community without paying for it." Remember that money is not the only way to pay. Most of us pay for our open source software by investing time and effort, even if simply by being early adopters (guinea pigs).
For those who truly believe that they got to see the show for free, look around-- someone certainly was behind you paying for your ticket.
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True, if they were indeed, just visions. But I assumed when the person predicting invoked a range of "5 to 10 years", that he was, indeed, putting an outside limit on the project.
Interestingly enough, I saw the same thing on the news about 10 years later and remembered that day in class, so many years before. At the time, television was a big part of my life, and I was looking forward to that milestone. Ironically, now I couldn't care much less.
My point is, sometimes people just spout off a big number of years, thinking that by the time 10 years has passed, everyone will have forgotten that they ever made the statement. Then if it does come to pass, they'll say, "See, I told you it would happen!"
After all, I certainly have no idea who actually said it. I just know that someone did say it--twice, and I remember it.
I distinctly remember sitting in my 4th grade classroom, in 1970, and listening to the teacher read an article to the class, telling us about "the future".
One of the breaking news items was that scientists were working on making televisions that could "hang on a wall like a picture frame", and we would see it homes within 5 to 10 years.
I won't hold my breath on this holographic TV thing. I don't even think I'll bite on the "within our lifetime" bait at the start of the article.
Globally find and replace '3' with '9999999'. What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah, no kidding! retry_count=9999999 is much better than retry_count=3
Antivirus software is typically only effective if regularly updated. In machines that aren't networked, getting these updates is very tricky.
Not so tricky-- Use a thumb drive! The article points out that the astronauts can use them.
I always find it comical (or sad, depending on how you look at it) to see how ignorant the Slashdot crowd can be.
There are over 30,000 different "denominations" of "Christianity", and the vast majority of them, including Catholicism, make no dogmatic statement at all about the "how" of our coming to be (there are some groups that do, yes). That is left to the realm of science.
It irritates me to no end to see ignorant statements being modded up as "Informative" or "Insightful".
The Manhattan project was one of the real success stories in U.S. history. Regardless of how anyone might feel about the politics of "the bomb", we put a huge amount of money, manpower, and other resources into being the first to harness the military power of the atom, because we HAD to. It was a case of "victory at any price/failure is not an option."
If we would have just taken the money that has been spent on military management of our energy problems, we'd all be driving solar powered Ford Exploiters that cost nothing to run as long as the sun continues to show up for about half the day, every day.
"Chertoff said that in instances where a particular state doesn't seek a waiver, its residents will have to use a passport or a newly created federal passport card if they want to avoid a vigorous secondary screening at airport security."
They list what they want you to do, but if you choose to do it your own way, you just put up with the "vigorous secondary screening." Granted, I don't like the sounds of that myself, but if everyone simply refused to get the silly passport, their plan would crumble, no?
To the extent that Google has "forced" the industry in this respect, it helps users, and it helps Google. People want more storage, and Google is smart to provide it. If there are enough people who feel that they really need a ton of storage, they will follow the provider that offers it.
Someone like me, on the other hand, who finds 2GB to be more way more than enough, will hit a point where they are not inclined to switch to, say, Yahoo! Mail, from the great feature set of gmail, simply for more storage. If the user doesn't feel the benefit, no amount of extra storage will steal them away.
If I'm in the minority, and the reality is that most people just want more, and more, and more storage, then those users will follow the big storage provider, and the remaining providers will continue to try to catchup by offering more storage to get the eyeballs.
I thought I was on Slashdot.
I'm utterly amazed that this thread didn't somehow involve porn.
Well, one thing is, they'll never expire so long as you keep buying minutes. So, after 3 or 4 months if you haven't "recharged" your minutes they'll usually terminate your service.
Well, I've not seen anything that requires me to buy more minutes on a regular basis either, and in fact, I even ran the perfect case scenario past a sales rep, which was, "So, if my father, for example, who doesn't like the idea of spending money on something he would rarely use, such as a cell phone, were to get a cheap TDMA phone on eBay for say $40, and then just use the free 35 minutes you give him, and only use it in case he really needs it, and just made a 1 minute call every 2 months, that would be ok? Then when those 35 minutes are almost gone, from making a one minute call every 2 months for almost 6 years, then he could recharge for $5, right?" and the rep said, "Sure, you could do that, no problem." That's when I signed up, and I've not had a problem since. It's been almost 3 months. We'll see if you're right.
Watch out for a gotcha. Read the fine print. Many of the pre-paid plans expire at 24 months regardless of usage. It changes the price of the paging service if you bought a $100 pre-pay.
I don't see any such fine print with Beyond Wireless. They very clearly say, and my experience so far seems to support "Your Minutes NEVER EXPIRE" (their gratuitous exclamation points omitted).
If you can point me at something different, I'd appreciate knowing the catch. But as I said, so far it seems to be a great deal, and I've paid next to nothing to have a cell phone since I've found them.
Having said that, there are a couple of small things that are annoying to me. They first told me I could port my old cell number, then they said they couldn't, that they'd have to give me a new number, and after all was said and done, what I had to accept was a phone number that is no where near where I live (I live in Washington NOT D.C. and my cell number is a Texas number). But for outgoing calls, it doesn't matter. All minutes are created equal.
I could be wrong, but this is my impression about what is happening with TDMA, at least with AT&T/Cingular:
:)
They are transitioning to GSM nationwide here in the U.S. but they have a pretty hefty investment in their cell towers in TDMA equipment. So are they just throwing it out the window? Nope. They are reselling TMDA to at least one company, who is offering pre-paid cell service for bargain prices. The company that I know about is Beyond Wireless.
It works like this. You get yourself a TDMA phone, contact Beyond Wireless, they walk you through programming it, and give you 35 minutes free. Then at any time, you can log onto their website with a credit card and get a PIN code for just about any increment of minutes ($5, $10, $20, etc. up to $100). The bigger the increment you buy, the cheaper it is per minute, for 14.2 cents a minute down to 10 cents a minute.
The great thing about it is that you get AT&T's big footprint, albeit their old TDMA footprint, and your minutes never expire, as long as you use at least one minute every two months--pretty easy to do.
Another great thing is that incoming text messages are free. So in effect, it's a free text pager, as long as you use that one minute every two months. So, for 14.2 cents every two months, you can keep a pager going
Bad news-- I am suspecting that the TDMA coverage will continue to get worse and worse, as equipment fails, it will not be replaced. That's just my suspicions, based on what I've seen.
For now, it's worked great for me. I bought a phone for about $40, and haven't used more than $5 in minutes over the course of several months.
Since I have family in Mexico, I'm always trying to find the absolute cheapest way to RELIABLY call internationally. I've found cheaper methods than what I'm going to describe, but this is what you risk when you go TOO cheap (and believe me, you're talking to the King of Cheap):
- Dropped calls
- Low quality connection
- Recurring fees for doing nothing other than patronizing the fools, which include things like:
- Connection charge ($1.95 usually, but often more, sometimes less, for every call you make--note, sometimes this is really a bad charge because you get disconnected because of a bad connection that they provide you, and then YOU have to pay another connection charge when you have to call the person back again)
- Monthly charges ($2.95/month to be part of the program, etc.)
- Maintenance charges (they subtract money from your account every month/week/day until your account/card is dry)
- Contracts that you have to cancel
- Being on their mailing list and/or having your address sold
- Poor or non-existent customer service, should it be required--and with the poor connections where you have to pay a high per-connection charge, it can be very annoying to find that after two or three dropped connections, your $5 card is used up, and then you call customer service and they tell you "oh dear how sad"
- Etc.
I like simple. I like cheap. I like reliable. I like being able to cut and run if I don't like what they're doing to me. And believe me, there are a lot of outfits out there that will do it to you. So what I'm going to tell you about here is just about the optimal mix that I've come up with (at least to Mexico--I imagine that it's comparable for other countries):
Onesuite.com -- They have the lowest rates within the U.S. and to other countries that I've seen. You can get started with as little as a $10 charge to your credit card to fund your account, and if you don't like the service, you just don't put any more money on the account. Abandon them. You never hear from them again. It acts like a calling card. When it's out of money, that's it. It's all done online, although they've added a toll-free number for recharging your account. Online, you have access to your call history and a bunch of other cool features like not having to enter PIN numbers from phones that you specify, speed dialing, subaccount with their own PINs (give someone else their own PIN so you can keep the calls seperate for accounting), live customer service, etc. It's a great company. I don't know how they do it, but because they DO do it, I'm a customer.
Now, if you REALLY want to go cheap (like me), you can look into www.nobelcom.com. They have cards that you have to buy $20 at a time--actually, $40 at a time because if you buy less than $40 worth of cards they add a processing fee of something like $4 as I recall. That sucks. I'm not thrilled about plopping down that much, but they've proven themselves with me now, at least for the first $10 on my first $20 card with them. The good thing about this card (at least the one that I get for calling Mexico) is this:
- There is no expiration on the minutes
- The cost per minute is 2 (2 cents) cheaper to Mexico per minute than Onesuite, which is as I said, cheaper than anywhere else I've seen
- They round minutes to the SECOND rather than to the minute, to 3 minute or 6 minutes (or more, as some are) It doesn't sound like much, but that rounding can add up to a lot of minutes lost, especially if you make a lot of short calls! And the higher your cost per minute, the more significant this feature becomes.
- There are no maintenance fees at all
- No connection fees
- The card is rechargable
nobelcom.com also has other cards that are even cheaper for calling Mexico, but they have maintence charges and/or connection charges, etc. The cheaper cards might actually be better for some people. If you tend to call, for example, less frequently but talk for a long time, you might want o
As often as not, traffic control devices in the U.S. are in place to generate revenue, not necessarily for reasons of safety.
n al s.html
The National Motorist Association (here in the U.S.) is all over this kind of discussion. I've been a member since the early 1980's and in fact became a life member after a few years. The guy who started it is still at the helm and is zealous about protecting driver's rights. I like to describe their organization like this: The NMA is to drivers as the NRA is to firearms owners.
The NMA has a link on their website to some information about traffic lights:
http://www.geocities.com/jusjih/trafficlightsig
I found the above link on looking at the NMA's website (http://www.motorists.org). Their website isn't bleeding edge cool, but has a lot of good information for drivers.
And at the risk of turning this into a plug for them, I'd like to say that I highly recommend that anyone who is concerned about their rights as a driver, that you check ou their website. The NMA was the #1 driving force, if not the sole force in getting the ridiculous 55 MPH repealed a few years back. I know that most everyone in the U.S. is happy for that. Check out their website at http://www.motorists.org
I heard Chris Proctor (guitarist) tell a story that went something like this. I don't remember the exact words, but you'll have to trust that the punchline is what is important: "A quality guitar owes much of its sound to the large sheet of wood on the back of the guitar. A well known guitar maker was saving a particular pristine piece of such wood for a one special client who was thus far unidentified. When I met with them to get my next guitar, that piece of wood was taken out of it's special storage place in my honor and when the guitar was finally complete, I picked it up and played it a bit. It was indeed an exquisite instrument, and I resolved to use it in public for the first time at my next concert. I rushed off to the airport with the guitar in it's special case, checked it and my luggage and we were off to our destination. Upon arriving, I went to retrieve my luggage and the guitar, only to be greeted by an airline representative, saying that there had been a problem with my luggage."
You guessed it. A forklift tine had been run right through the guitar, destroying it.
By the way, check out Chris Proctor's music if you haven't.
I live fairly close to a number of farms that grow trees specifically for paper production. They aren't what you would expect. The trees are basically just cottonwood trees, which have long been thought of more or less of as a weed. They plant very dense fields of these trees that grow to about 60-70' tall in about 8 years when they are 7" in diameter and harvested. It's almost scary to look at a field of them. The trees grow oftentimes right up to the edge of the road, and in a very short distance you could be in the middle of a dark forest, not knowing which way to turn. Take a look at this link for an idea of what these plantations look like):
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http://www.daviesand.com/Perspectives/Forest_Prod
... I, like many others I suspect, simply won't install blinkx because it requires IE, which I refuse to use anymore.
Long live FireFox/Mozilla.
I've been getting spams lately that seem to be trying to get around the highly effective statistical solutions, such as SpamAssassin, that have been implemented. Spammers seem to be adding random, or possibly even carefully selected dictionary words to skew their statistical rating. Here is an example from the several I've received lately--has anyone seen information about this on /. or elsewhere?
[spammers irritating message snipped]
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:42:34 -0500
No Thanks
beatify
sacred atom drank deprecate cathodic thermionic sherman delinquent hanley swum wooster asteroidal bilayer haiti saudi wink bijective reserpine baronial gloss ambrose threadbare chianti predatory earmark bilingual angora palazzi chartres alveolar phosphate civet radish barricade diem laurie minutem! en crusty
camilla jade lineman bendix masonic dublin incontrovertible defecate generous buddhist yesterday endow bitten conley trunk pitchfork beret bloat gelatine dovetail gambia medea niggardly blackburn suey dialogue ilyushin anastigmatic berth abort bodied contractor of ridden embarcadero corset trademark
ID: W993gt72
carnation
constructor maltese bantam airfield pique douglas pungent criterion cloudburst illiterate sausage career stile pebble bonnie shim carbonium
magnesite pembroke abrade jogging dynast physiochemical stochastic sumac conference obtain villain midwinter incompetent eradicable madhouse airline antony household cursory instinctual gratuitous clown shaven des cornflower
I tend to think that it's too little too late. I gave up on RealNetworks long ago because of all of the viruslike behavior and have advised anyone that I come in contact with to just say no to Real content.
...people kill security.
I've always had a problem with the saying "You get what you pay for." It's more accurate to say "You don't get what you don't pay for."
And remember, lest people say, "But that's not true, because look at what great software I get from the open source community without paying for it." Remember that money is not the only way to pay. Most of us pay for our open source software by investing time and effort, even if simply by being early adopters (guinea pigs).
For those who truly believe that they got to see the show for free, look around-- someone certainly was behind you paying for your ticket.