I use it at home, along with one token copy of XP Pro. The way my setup works is the Xandros machines are the only ones that can see the internet. Any surfing, email or chatting is done on them. The only time Windows gets to see the internet is for updates and patches.
The CrossOver inclusion is why I orginally purchased Xandros, but that's not what kept me as a customer. I stayed with it because it's easy and it works. Used CrossOver a few times early on mainly for the wife's stuff, but as she got more comfortable with Xandros and open source apps she uses CrossOver less and less.
The share drive with the windoze box works fine, but there can be problems trying to browse folders on the Xandros machine with large numbers of image files. Windows file explorer will stop responding, especially if you have thumbnails enabled. A minor inconvenience.
Only one real problem, that's getting the sound to work with the QuickTime player. It'll play the movie but not the sound. Haven't had time to piddle with trying to fix it.
Unless you need the VPN and client tools, the Deluxe version would work fine for most business applications.
I feel that "two wrongs don't make a right" applies here.
It does. But we're not talking about two wrongs, we're talking about years of price fixing and boning the consuming public with heavy-handed business practices. It's not like media companies are engaging in fair market competition. They're using favorable legislation and legal bullying to maintain an artificially high price on their products. If there were true competition in the music market place you'd be downloading iTunes songs for a nickel instead of a dollar and the big media companies would still be swimming in money.
This isn't a playground fight where one kid got pushed and another pushed back. This is companies that make billions in profits purchasing influence in government and the media to try and protect their margin. This isn't an "educational" effort, it's straight up bullying. Huge companies using our own government to do their enforcement.
I agree with you that doesn't justify copyright infringement. But where are our rights in all this? Where's the equal amount of government pressure on the media companies to compete in a fair market? Or some reasonable reciprocation in copyright legislation? Give copyright holders 10 years instead of two lifetimes. Now they get to soak you like one of their bitches forever without giving anything back to our collective culture.
The situation with media and software companies seems a little one sided in the "wrongs" department to me. I'm not condoning copyright infringement or using software you haven't paid for but I'm also not condoning a government financed protection racket.
Consumers are supposed to have rights, too. But who's sticking up for them? Congress? HAHAHAHAHA! By the people, for the people went out about a hundred years ago. Except for the people who can afford 30 second spots on TV.
recieving a free copy of something someone else has invested time and money to produce is not a "right."
You're right but that's only one side of the equation. You want consumers to follow the rules but corporate empires can continue to fix prices, gouge the consumer, whittle away at our fair use rights and we're just supposed to take it?
cases like these are part of the Justice Department's coordinated strategy to protect copyright owners from the online thieves who steal and then sell the products they work so hard to produce.
Amazing how much you can accomplish with a few million in PR money and a high profile K Street lobbyist. Copyright infringement is not theft. No, that doesn't make it okay, but it is most definitely not theft. The manufacturer may have lost sales and be owed money, but no one stole anything from them. What irks me is that no one got up in arms about copyright infringement, so RIAA and groups like them started lobbying the public consciousness and change the definition to "stealing" because that's a better inflamatory term for a call to action.
Now we see someone who should be smart enough to know the difference parroting the RIAA party line. What happens when the same person decides the definition of "terrorist" includes anyone Turd Blossom doesn't like?
I use Linux as my primary OS because I like it AND it makes good financial sense. If Linux were evenly priced with Windows I'd still choose it for certain applications. Especially anywhere the ability to modify the software for mission tasks was essential.
It's not so much about money as control. That's really the thing I like best about Linux and OSS, I can control what my machine does down to a very granular level. I like that. Many people don't and that's fine. Use Windows or get a Mac.
And a Linux environment is soooo much faster. I'm always amazed how slow Windows machines are. Every time I have to go in to the client shop to do something it's like trying to run in mud. Wait and wait for it to boot up, login, wait and wait some more for five bazillion background processes to load, oh I get to do some work now, woooweee. Wait for the development environment to load. Zzzzzzzzzzz.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tx) has requested raw data and personal financial information on three scientists who published a paper which claimed that temperatures rose precipitously in the 20th century.
Republicans have perfected the strategy that if you don't like the message, seek to discredit the messenger.
Apparently the Republican party was in charge when Jesus was on earth because that was the same strategy the local political powers pursued against Him.
This will impact Win2K users more than anyone else I'd think. Which is too bad because 2K was one MSFT product that I kind of liked. 2003 Server is just the Win98SE of server software. MSFT's little tap dance to bridge the gap to Longhorn/Vista.
Buying MSFT products is like voting Republican. You can kid yourself all you want but in the end they're going to do what they do and stick to the little people. Republicans are going to pander to big business and the religious right and MSFT is going to keep pushing forced upgrades. Just the way it is.
Life is so much better when your IT environment doesn't depend on MSFT. Machines are much faster, less down time, just better. Whether it's Mac OS or Linux, you'll have a much better computing experience.
Its just sickening how lazy Americans have become. Back in the 60's people staged protests (real ones at least, not the half assed ones of today), they boycotted, they got together and really discussed the issues and did something about it. Today, Americans wont get off their asses because they would rather vote on who the next American Idol is than vote on their next president. This is why the government and big business walk all over us, because we don't do anything about it. But look at it this way, at least fast food workers and high school dropouts have a promising career in the TSA.
I agree with you. I think something like 16% of voters identify themselves as part of the religious right. Back in the 60's and 70's that fragment of the voting block got rolled over by a very active left. Since then the radical right has been fighting for every school board seat, city council seat, county commission, congressional and senate seat. In other words they fought back by getting active. And now it's paying off.
They really didn't start getting traction until they formed this really freak, unholy alliance with big business. But the bottom line is a radical element of US society has been able to gain power because the left sat back on their collective ass, depending on the courts to keep extremism at bay, and let the radical right get ahold of your local school board, the Congress and White House. We got here because more moderate, intelligent people, like many of you here, didn't get involved. Now they're dug in like an Alabama tick.
Great things we've gotten from the South:
Slavery
Segregation
The Religious Right
Maybe we should've split up when we had the chance.
OS X is already where Linux needs to be (though artificially; you control the hardware, you control the software).
What I see is people trying on install Linux on machines built for Windows and expecting Linux to be able to auto-detect ever bastard design and off the wall piece of hardware ever cobbled together to make a working machine. If Linux doesn't work perfectly they get all huffy and announce that Linux just isn't "there" yet.
Apple gets around that by only supporting "their" hardware. In my book that's just as bad as trying to support everyone's hardware.
Seems like we could find a happy medium of hardware support that says if you pick components and machines from X list, you'll have a good Linux experience. Instead of trying to support Planet Hardware.
Then maybe Linux developers would have more time to put into the user experience.
You can do things just great--I want to be very clear about that--but (when it comes to) the adding of modules...it becomes more and more difficult (to manage). You almost have to start from scratch in some ways.
And just what modules would those be? How can you toss out something like that without even a single supporting example? Wait, this is MSFT, that explains it.
Hey, let's not plan our user environment in an organized way, let's just toss "modules" in there. Sounds like a great new game: Module Toss. I had the idea first, I get the patent!!!
It's the attack of the random modules!!! Run for your lives!!!
As if we needed another reason. Intel would be shooting themselves in the foot but it's their foot. All you can do is encourage them to point their weapon down range.
Apple has been doing something similar with their QuickTime codecs. If you've tried to play one recently and gotten the error that it can't play the file or find an update. Drag feet supporting other platforms and subtly encourage people to switch. At least that's the way market droids think.
XP was out for something like five years before I broke down and got a copy. I'm finding fewer reasons to use the token Windoze box on my network for anything. At that pace I'm probably A) Never going to buy Longbone or B) It will be so far in the future someone will have come up with a monitor device that allows you to change how the monitor identifies itself.
So later he'll be able to tell the grand jury that he never actually mentioned McBride's name but referred to him only as Whats-his-face, the SCO CEO. And that it's only a crime if the CEO had been stationed overseas within the last five years.
Later he'll change that story to say he actually first got McBride's name from Robert Novak. And he'll keep stone-walling and changing the story hoping that the next Supreme Court nomination will take the heat off.
That's right.. like "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
That line isn't working anymore. Lying about getting a blow job and lying about a 330 billion dollar war that's done nothing but create a training ground for terrorits are not even in the same arena.
Aren't you getting the memos from Republican HQ on the talking points? If you're going to be a good little parrot you have to keep current. Sheez. You're supposed to be saying that Karl Rove didn't commit any crime when he ratted out Wilson's wife and stick to that line until the Supreme Court nomination moves that scandal to the back burner. I think there was another one this am claiming he got her name from Novak instead of classified information. It's probably tough to keep all the lies straight these days but that's no excuse for slacking.
I thought the US had the corner on the market for the most retarded copyright laws, but the Australians have surged into the lead with this ruling.
Wow, it's so nice not to be the assbag country of the world for a change, even if it's just one small area. We can point to at least one country with more over-reaching and gestapoesque copyright rules than we have. Thanks you guys!
From years of wading through corporate bullshit there are few piles that really stand out.
Empowerment - We're cutting staff so we're enpowering those of you who are left to do their work and yours for the same pay.
Right size - We're sending your jobs to Pakistan. If you're lucky we'll empower you to stay long enough to train your replacements.
Disconnect - Any time you can't read the customer's mind and anticipate every boot-licking, petty request they might have. Enough disconnects and we'll right size your position and empower you to pursue a career in fast food.
Paradygm - A made up word consultants use to make you feel stupid and justify their massive salaries. A new paradygm usually leads to empowering people to do two jobs for one salary.
My all time hall of fame winner comes from Dell:
Award winning service - We've shipped our call center overseas, if you really want any help you might want to learn Hindi.
If you ignore any request for payment from any company even if its fraudulent you again have only yourself to blame if you do not challenge it.
Not exactly...not in this state anyway. Any company can demand payment but demanding payment without providing the service throws it into a different light. It's a little like the utility company shutting off your water for not paying the bill, then continue charging you for the water you're not using. If Wired continues to send the magazine, then they might have a case. It's a jerkoff tactic in either aspect. Their business plan seems to be:
Play hard ball with customers with vaguely legal tactics.
Get millions of geeks, including many Wired subscribers, on Slashdot pissed off.
Profit!!!!
Unfortunately it seems to be the trend lately that more and more companies are willing to lean on customers with tactics of questionable legality. Seems to be more chatter about credit card companies in particular, but it's happening across a broad spectrum of busineeses. And they'll keep doing it until they get burned. Of course, thanks to the sweetheart legislation passed by your Republican Congress and White House, there's not much fear of that happening.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting skeptical about anything I read from Jupiter, Gartner or any of the big research firms. It's usually being paid for by someone with an agenda and, no surprise, the research tends to support the conclusions the customer wants. After a while you just stop paying attention to them. They've sold their credibility.
Now think about the databases the FBI and the airport security are keeping about you.
Not sure I'd worry as much about them. The FBI computer systems aren't as sophisticated as people seem to think. The danger from them is the type of information they have access to in other systems. And the ability to aggregate that information into a file supplemented by direct observation. That's what the real brewha with the Patriot Act is all about. The FBI's ability to do that without judicial oversight. The prospect for abuse is some political lackey like Karl Rove using the FBI as a political tool to investigate and intimidate political opposition.
TSA's data systems have the potential to be far more incidious but they're going too many directions at once to be really dangerous yet...hence incidents like Senator Kennedy turning up on a no fly list.
Individual companies tend to guard their customer data instead of share it. The real dangerous organizations imho are companies like ChoicePoint, LexisNexis and the credit reporting agencies. They are operating largely without government oversight and very few regulatory limitations on what they can keep about you and how long.
It would be interesting to find out if there was a market for privacy services. Not to hide from law enforcement but a company designed to keep the legal purchases and shopping habits of their customers out of places like ChoicePoint. I'm guessing the market would be very small. Most people just don't seem to care about privacy all that much.
There are golf trips, and trips to las vegas, or other places this senator needs to check out for him to be able to properly understand Microsoft and the plight of the industry regarding the federal government.
Oh, those are the easy ones to track. The more interesting ones involve "layovers" in places like the Caribbean. A layover doesn't technically count as a destination and frequently isn't reported.
Nice thing about stopping there...the laws governing certain activities...the kind involving really hot women from foreign countries...are lot less restrictive down there.
Kinda gives the term "layover" a whole new meaning if you catch my drift. You're on the right track, though.
This is the tip of the iceburg. Wait until local and regional authorities in these crapistani companies start figuring out there's money in organzied identity theft. Then you'll really see some serious shit.
Not only that but wait until the day dawns we find out that the Indian, Chinese, and Pakistani governments have extensive dossiers on almost every American. "Well, Senator, we see you had some credit card charges at a London casino and took a cab to an address registered to a Miss BoomBoom Botty Call. And also that you filled a Viagra prescription right before you left. Strange that Mrs. Senator was shopping in New York that weekend. She's really going to enjoy that Rolex she bought at Sax, I have one myself. Now what were you saying about trade sanctions?"
I have no problem with Google ads. They don't take over your screen or blink annoyingly and don't turn a 2 second page load into a 30 second bandwidth hog.
Doubleclick is their own worst enemy. It's not just the trashy ads, but their spyware cookies and other means of tracking internet users. Here's a clue for those bastards: We're not here for your convenience. We pay for our bandwidth and that doesn't mean you're entitled to it. If your customer sites want to find a different way to make money, have at it. Another site will find a less obtrusive way to get their advertising in front of consumers by offering the same content. That's the way the free market works. They win, you lose. And it couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
Geez, let's see. Starting the movie after 20 minutes of pre-views, boning people at the concession stand, letting people walk in five minutes after the movie starts and having Yao Ming sit right in front of you while some kid kicks the back of your chair. That's in between cell phones and the retards that hold their phone up so they can check their important messages. And one other factor makes home theater more attractive...
...the beer.
I don't feel a bit sorry for theater chains. Greedy bastards did themselves in. And just as soon as the air car is perfected airlines are next on the scrap heap of history. I hate them worse than movie theaters.
Slashdot Mirror
The CrossOver inclusion is why I orginally purchased Xandros, but that's not what kept me as a customer. I stayed with it because it's easy and it works. Used CrossOver a few times early on mainly for the wife's stuff, but as she got more comfortable with Xandros and open source apps she uses CrossOver less and less.
The share drive with the windoze box works fine, but there can be problems trying to browse folders on the Xandros machine with large numbers of image files. Windows file explorer will stop responding, especially if you have thumbnails enabled. A minor inconvenience.
Only one real problem, that's getting the sound to work with the QuickTime player. It'll play the movie but not the sound. Haven't had time to piddle with trying to fix it.
Unless you need the VPN and client tools, the Deluxe version would work fine for most business applications.
It does. But we're not talking about two wrongs, we're talking about years of price fixing and boning the consuming public with heavy-handed business practices. It's not like media companies are engaging in fair market competition. They're using favorable legislation and legal bullying to maintain an artificially high price on their products. If there were true competition in the music market place you'd be downloading iTunes songs for a nickel instead of a dollar and the big media companies would still be swimming in money.
This isn't a playground fight where one kid got pushed and another pushed back. This is companies that make billions in profits purchasing influence in government and the media to try and protect their margin. This isn't an "educational" effort, it's straight up bullying. Huge companies using our own government to do their enforcement.
I agree with you that doesn't justify copyright infringement. But where are our rights in all this? Where's the equal amount of government pressure on the media companies to compete in a fair market? Or some reasonable reciprocation in copyright legislation? Give copyright holders 10 years instead of two lifetimes. Now they get to soak you like one of their bitches forever without giving anything back to our collective culture.
The situation with media and software companies seems a little one sided in the "wrongs" department to me. I'm not condoning copyright infringement or using software you haven't paid for but I'm also not condoning a government financed protection racket.
Consumers are supposed to have rights, too. But who's sticking up for them? Congress? HAHAHAHAHA! By the people, for the people went out about a hundred years ago. Except for the people who can afford 30 second spots on TV.
You're right but that's only one side of the equation. You want consumers to follow the rules but corporate empires can continue to fix prices, gouge the consumer, whittle away at our fair use rights and we're just supposed to take it?
cases like these are part of the Justice Department's coordinated strategy to protect copyright owners from the online thieves who steal and then sell the products they work so hard to produce.
Amazing how much you can accomplish with a few million in PR money and a high profile K Street lobbyist. Copyright infringement is not theft. No, that doesn't make it okay, but it is most definitely not theft. The manufacturer may have lost sales and be owed money, but no one stole anything from them. What irks me is that no one got up in arms about copyright infringement, so RIAA and groups like them started lobbying the public consciousness and change the definition to "stealing" because that's a better inflamatory term for a call to action.
Now we see someone who should be smart enough to know the difference parroting the RIAA party line. What happens when the same person decides the definition of "terrorist" includes anyone Turd Blossom doesn't like?
The code name for that project is Operation Turd Blossum.
Spam unsubscribes you!
It's not so much about money as control. That's really the thing I like best about Linux and OSS, I can control what my machine does down to a very granular level. I like that. Many people don't and that's fine. Use Windows or get a Mac.
And a Linux environment is soooo much faster. I'm always amazed how slow Windows machines are. Every time I have to go in to the client shop to do something it's like trying to run in mud. Wait and wait for it to boot up, login, wait and wait some more for five bazillion background processes to load, oh I get to do some work now, woooweee. Wait for the development environment to load. Zzzzzzzzzzz.
Republicans have perfected the strategy that if you don't like the message, seek to discredit the messenger.
Apparently the Republican party was in charge when Jesus was on earth because that was the same strategy the local political powers pursued against Him.
This will impact Win2K users more than anyone else I'd think. Which is too bad because 2K was one MSFT product that I kind of liked. 2003 Server is just the Win98SE of server software. MSFT's little tap dance to bridge the gap to Longhorn/Vista.
Buying MSFT products is like voting Republican. You can kid yourself all you want but in the end they're going to do what they do and stick to the little people. Republicans are going to pander to big business and the religious right and MSFT is going to keep pushing forced upgrades. Just the way it is.
Life is so much better when your IT environment doesn't depend on MSFT. Machines are much faster, less down time, just better. Whether it's Mac OS or Linux, you'll have a much better computing experience.
I agree with you. I think something like 16% of voters identify themselves as part of the religious right. Back in the 60's and 70's that fragment of the voting block got rolled over by a very active left. Since then the radical right has been fighting for every school board seat, city council seat, county commission, congressional and senate seat. In other words they fought back by getting active. And now it's paying off.
They really didn't start getting traction until they formed this really freak, unholy alliance with big business. But the bottom line is a radical element of US society has been able to gain power because the left sat back on their collective ass, depending on the courts to keep extremism at bay, and let the radical right get ahold of your local school board, the Congress and White House. We got here because more moderate, intelligent people, like many of you here, didn't get involved. Now they're dug in like an Alabama tick.
Great things we've gotten from the South:
Maybe we should've split up when we had the chance.
What I see is people trying on install Linux on machines built for Windows and expecting Linux to be able to auto-detect ever bastard design and off the wall piece of hardware ever cobbled together to make a working machine. If Linux doesn't work perfectly they get all huffy and announce that Linux just isn't "there" yet.
Apple gets around that by only supporting "their" hardware. In my book that's just as bad as trying to support everyone's hardware.
Seems like we could find a happy medium of hardware support that says if you pick components and machines from X list, you'll have a good Linux experience. Instead of trying to support Planet Hardware.
Then maybe Linux developers would have more time to put into the user experience.
Just a suggestion.
And just what modules would those be? How can you toss out something like that without even a single supporting example? Wait, this is MSFT, that explains it.
Hey, let's not plan our user environment in an organized way, let's just toss "modules" in there. Sounds like a great new game: Module Toss. I had the idea first, I get the patent!!!
It's the attack of the random modules!!! Run for your lives!!!
Apple has been doing something similar with their QuickTime codecs. If you've tried to play one recently and gotten the error that it can't play the file or find an update. Drag feet supporting other platforms and subtly encourage people to switch. At least that's the way market droids think.
XP was out for something like five years before I broke down and got a copy. I'm finding fewer reasons to use the token Windoze box on my network for anything. At that pace I'm probably A) Never going to buy Longbone or B) It will be so far in the future someone will have come up with a monitor device that allows you to change how the monitor identifies itself.
So later he'll be able to tell the grand jury that he never actually mentioned McBride's name but referred to him only as Whats-his-face, the SCO CEO. And that it's only a crime if the CEO had been stationed overseas within the last five years.
Later he'll change that story to say he actually first got McBride's name from Robert Novak. And he'll keep stone-walling and changing the story hoping that the next Supreme Court nomination will take the heat off.
That line isn't working anymore. Lying about getting a blow job and lying about a 330 billion dollar war that's done nothing but create a training ground for terrorits are not even in the same arena.
Aren't you getting the memos from Republican HQ on the talking points? If you're going to be a good little parrot you have to keep current. Sheez. You're supposed to be saying that Karl Rove didn't commit any crime when he ratted out Wilson's wife and stick to that line until the Supreme Court nomination moves that scandal to the back burner. I think there was another one this am claiming he got her name from Novak instead of classified information. It's probably tough to keep all the lies straight these days but that's no excuse for slacking.
Try to keep up.
Wow, it's so nice not to be the assbag country of the world for a change, even if it's just one small area. We can point to at least one country with more over-reaching and gestapoesque copyright rules than we have. Thanks you guys!
Empowerment - We're cutting staff so we're enpowering those of you who are left to do their work and yours for the same pay.
Right size - We're sending your jobs to Pakistan. If you're lucky we'll empower you to stay long enough to train your replacements.
Disconnect - Any time you can't read the customer's mind and anticipate every boot-licking, petty request they might have. Enough disconnects and we'll right size your position and empower you to pursue a career in fast food.
Paradygm - A made up word consultants use to make you feel stupid and justify their massive salaries. A new paradygm usually leads to empowering people to do two jobs for one salary.
My all time hall of fame winner comes from Dell:
Award winning service - We've shipped our call center overseas, if you really want any help you might want to learn Hindi.
Not exactly...not in this state anyway. Any company can demand payment but demanding payment without providing the service throws it into a different light. It's a little like the utility company shutting off your water for not paying the bill, then continue charging you for the water you're not using. If Wired continues to send the magazine, then they might have a case. It's a jerkoff tactic in either aspect. Their business plan seems to be:
Unfortunately it seems to be the trend lately that more and more companies are willing to lean on customers with tactics of questionable legality. Seems to be more chatter about credit card companies in particular, but it's happening across a broad spectrum of busineeses. And they'll keep doing it until they get burned. Of course, thanks to the sweetheart legislation passed by your Republican Congress and White House, there's not much fear of that happening.
You get what you vote for.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting skeptical about anything I read from Jupiter, Gartner or any of the big research firms. It's usually being paid for by someone with an agenda and, no surprise, the research tends to support the conclusions the customer wants. After a while you just stop paying attention to them. They've sold their credibility.
Not sure I'd worry as much about them. The FBI computer systems aren't as sophisticated as people seem to think. The danger from them is the type of information they have access to in other systems. And the ability to aggregate that information into a file supplemented by direct observation. That's what the real brewha with the Patriot Act is all about. The FBI's ability to do that without judicial oversight. The prospect for abuse is some political lackey like Karl Rove using the FBI as a political tool to investigate and intimidate political opposition.
TSA's data systems have the potential to be far more incidious but they're going too many directions at once to be really dangerous yet...hence incidents like Senator Kennedy turning up on a no fly list.
Individual companies tend to guard their customer data instead of share it. The real dangerous organizations imho are companies like ChoicePoint, LexisNexis and the credit reporting agencies. They are operating largely without government oversight and very few regulatory limitations on what they can keep about you and how long.
It would be interesting to find out if there was a market for privacy services. Not to hide from law enforcement but a company designed to keep the legal purchases and shopping habits of their customers out of places like ChoicePoint. I'm guessing the market would be very small. Most people just don't seem to care about privacy all that much.
Oh, those are the easy ones to track. The more interesting ones involve "layovers" in places like the Caribbean. A layover doesn't technically count as a destination and frequently isn't reported.
Nice thing about stopping there...the laws governing certain activities...the kind involving really hot women from foreign countries...are lot less restrictive down there.
Kinda gives the term "layover" a whole new meaning if you catch my drift. You're on the right track, though.
Right up to the time they leap on you and tear your face off. And that second set of jaws comes out of the first, like Alien.
Not only that but wait until the day dawns we find out that the Indian, Chinese, and Pakistani governments have extensive dossiers on almost every American. "Well, Senator, we see you had some credit card charges at a London casino and took a cab to an address registered to a Miss BoomBoom Botty Call. And also that you filled a Viagra prescription right before you left. Strange that Mrs. Senator was shopping in New York that weekend. She's really going to enjoy that Rolex she bought at Sax, I have one myself. Now what were you saying about trade sanctions?"
Doubleclick is their own worst enemy. It's not just the trashy ads, but their spyware cookies and other means of tracking internet users. Here's a clue for those bastards: We're not here for your convenience. We pay for our bandwidth and that doesn't mean you're entitled to it. If your customer sites want to find a different way to make money, have at it. Another site will find a less obtrusive way to get their advertising in front of consumers by offering the same content. That's the way the free market works. They win, you lose. And it couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
...the beer.
I don't feel a bit sorry for theater chains. Greedy bastards did themselves in. And just as soon as the air car is perfected airlines are next on the scrap heap of history. I hate them worse than movie theaters.