FF comes bundled in most Linux distros, and thats fine, bundle it all you want. I don't use it and want nothing to do with it. Could care less about its existence.
So the ff execs are right in this case, bundled and I still don't and wont use it.
Konqueror is all I use for a browser. Don't work in Konqi, too bad, I won't be back.
I am just so sick and tired of the sites using Flash for stuff that could easily and better be done with other things like a simple JPG.
As for Mono/Silverlight...MS can stick it. I won't install that for Linux and I am not allowing on the machines I control that still have to use winslopper. Most of them don't even have a current flash version installed, its whatever came with XP which is 6 or something.
With that so outdated alot of the crap sites and ads are defacto blocked. Happy happy joy joy.:)
Its now put up or shut up time for you.
You will have to either be a moral person and continue to do whats right or give into the money and coporate greed structure.
This is simply a way for them to get you to be their puppet at the least cost for them.
Say no! They will move on to the next lowest person on the list.
itunes? ? ? digg?????
Puhlease! These have about as as much to do with the internet and its history and development as I do to creating the universe.
Under notable/honorable mentions... you've got a ton of stuff that if it didn't exist would mean alot of things would not be around today.....lets seee..
WithOUT FidoNet and BBS' period much of the concept of "netmail" and etc. would be non existant. FidoNet and the BBS community are responsible for alot more than just an "notable mention."
SMTP???? HMMMMMM Do you think this might be important????? Naaahhh Its just the PROTOCOL THAT MOVES EMAIL FROM SERVER TO SERVER! Thats not important. SMTP IS A HUGE DEVELOPMENT!
Hayes modems??? Ummm HELLO.... With out the ubiquitous Hayes modems and its clones most people would never have been able to connect to an ISP and the Internet......You also totally blew off Compuserve and QLink remember them....they started as serving Commodore users and became A O L ! ! !
Cisco???? Ummm, nope, they certainly are not more worthy than a notable mention......Lets see the fact that they probably make 80-90% of the equipment that makes the internet work couldn't make them important to the development of the internet.....nope.....
digg???? Your kidding right?????? digg wouldn't be around if it were not for SLASHDOT!/././. Feel the slashdot effect!?? Ever hear of it????? Around long for digg and its wannabe siblings. You totally blew them off, not even a notable mention.....
JenniCam on notable mention???? You start off with a piece about porn and sex on the internet....well JenniCam was the first and you can not place it on a notable mention list when it started a genre of sites to follow.
Considering some of the other items on the "notable" list... its clear that the writer has not been around the development of internet technologies and is a recent adopter.....the clues??? digg, twitter, itunes! These have ZERO, no LESS THAN ZERO value to the development of the internet except to the mindless sheeple using them.
If you don't know what uucp is and how it was a factor in the expansion and development of the internet then you have no business writing the article. The fact that you put Cisco on a notable mention list shows how little the author understands the development and status quo of the internet.
1) Ye who registers FIRST gets the domain.
2) IP/copyright/trademark/etc don't apply....
3) Too bad if mcdougals dot com or something points to something not related to that company.
4) If you want the domain so bad you negotiate with the owner to purchase it.
All this BS over allowing IP..... early registration in new TLD's etc. is BS..... When a new TLD opens or you open a new company you register the domains that are available to your or approach the owner to sell a registred domain to you.
First come, first server. Simple, easy, and no problems until the lawyers show up.
Todays Crossword Puzzle.....
Down...
6 Best Operating System, 5 letters starts with L
Answers
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6 LINUX
No one is interested in your dud os vistcrap
No one is interested in your has been comic
With the epic failure of this campaign I would expect:
1) ad agency fired
2) ad agency employees fired
seinfeld can be funny as a comic at times, sure, in that stupid show.... nope.
and as for the puppet master behind the comic larry david, well I don't find him or his show that funny. The only reason to watch it is for Cheryl Hines who really needs to be in other projects more often....
we've all moved on to Linux and its time the rest of the planet catches up. the ads only confirm it your out of touch with reality and time to just go away, please.
Get Linux
Get your computer back
Get things done
Next to no one in the US and even possibly Canada (even being a Commonwealth country) is going to know what that means. Unless of course they took Latin.
Call it a resume and you willsound/look less like a "tourist."
Any one interested in creating a new breed of software based radio scanners (those radios used to monitor police, fire, ems, and other signals) for modes not supported on current scanners or to add features can bring their skills to:
911 is more than just a fowarding number on the POTS side of things.
When you dial 911 or *something on your cell phone that is simply a forwarded number to a regular POTS line at the PSAP.
If and ONLY IF your carrier and the local PSAP are setup for wireless 911 does a 911 call get routed similar to a regular 911 call which then provides info like the cell site and an ESTIMATED ADDRESS its not exact and this level of cellular 911 is available to a very small area.
As for VOIP and 911 thanks to voncrap and the hordes of non technical users VOIP is now saddled with this issue. Plain and simple there should big huge warnings when signing up that 911 and emergency calling are not supported YOU the CUSTOMER need to make plans to deal with this by 1) Keeping a basic POTS line 2) Having a cell phone 3) Take your safety into your own hands and be prepared
Damn strainght! Budvar Budweiser the REAL King of Beers.
schokheiser wuscht and company can just go away with their yellow tinted water.
Glad to see another/.'r who knows the truth and not taken in by yellow water marketing and makers in the US who by and large produce a product that has about as much in common with beer as cola.
1) who will sell mirages to any sand dictator that comes along
2) harbor some of the most radical people on this planet starting with kommeni
3) like them and their quefranbec relations have an ENTIRE GOVERNMENT AGENCY on the preservation of french.... in others words to keep OUT AMERICAN INFLUENCES on culture and lanquage
4) lack of support of its allies, namely the US, since WWII
Plain and simple the snobbery starts in france so I am more than glad to just ignore the place entirely. Not some place I plan on visiting on any trip to Europe..I'd go to downtown Beirut before any place in france
Here's my take. Music, on a large scale, is already dead. Listen to what the MAJORITY of people who actually BUY CDs are buying and listening to. Fly-by-night rapers, one-hit-wonder pop stars, etc.
Pretty much 98% of modern music and thats from about 1976 to present day is CRAP. The 2% thats left is just barely tolerable. That 2% includes stuff like Hindi music that was in several Ballywood movies or alot of other stuff that gets used in movies like a Greek song that was used in The Wire. There are some talented people finding these gems.
I mostly listen to music from the 50-60's, classical, opera, and that 2% from above.... The rest is just schlock... and rap is not music its noise.
I am not purchasing CD's unless they are down right cheap $5.00 or under.
I don't own an ipod or use itunes.. for one thing its apple, and I can't stand them, and two I am not paying that price for music.
I do have a CD player that plays audio CD's or CD-R's with MP3's.
I will download MP3's from where ever I can find them for free, and thats prety much the only place I am going to look for music. I will only purchase the CD if its no where to be had online.
Any CD I purchase comes mostly from Amazon, unless I find some compilation CD in the bargain aisle at Target or WM.
If you want me to pay for music in MP3 or other digital format then:
1) Price - some where between $0.01 and $0.05/MAX is about what I am willing to pay the present $0.99 is OVERPRICED
2) NO DRM! ! ! GOT IT! NO DRM! - Once I purchase the MP3 that file is mine to do with it as I please be it on 50 computers, or 50 MP3's players or what ever, and YES that INLCUDES if I want to copy it to some one else.
1) GSM Is the REQUIREMENT in Europe by MANDATE. You can gloss it over with this or that, the "standards" were set up so one format met those standards, GSM. Suffice it to say you see it one way I see it another, and were not going to agree except to disagree. I heard the various arguments on this for a while and have not changed my opinion. GSM=MANDATED.
2) CDMA in its various formats is the de facto standard, in the US. NO CDMA you've lost out on 90% of the US market. Verizon, Sprint, Alltel (which may as well be Verizon, why don't they just merge and get it over with), US Cellular and a slew of other local and regional carriers. The fact that CDMA is going to be the air interface for the "new and improved" GSM shows they fubar'd with their anti US mind set. Pick the better technology, and thats not GSM.
3) Cingular can promote/crow all they want about being bigger sub count wise, that don't mean a thing. Their network is CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! Poor coverage, poor building penetration, lack of comparable coverage to Verizon. And as for TMobile, I would LOVE to use TMobile for 2 reasons - Catherine Zeta Jones and Deutsche Telekom. One their coverage SUCKS! Its even worse than Sprints 1900 CDMA network. Three networks I wouldn't touch Cingular, Sprint, TMobile in that order. Coverage, Coverage, Coverage and the ability to make a call in that coverage is all that matters. 99.99999% of my very limited calls are voice. The once in a blue moon tether to laptop for emergency and SMS to back up an alpha pager.
4) Verizon is not limiting me or making me ask for permission to use my phone. I purchase a phone which 1) Meets the requirements of the NETWORK ie: 800/1900, CDMA and AMPS (there are still and will continue even past the deadline to provide it analog areas, mostly rural, thus if you have a CDMA only phone your cooked). 2) Meets the features I need. I have had 4 handheld phones FOUR in 20+ years of service.FOUR. Compare that to others, some peple change cell phones more than they change socks and underwear. My present 9155GPX phone is as low tech as it gets. Supports 1x data for tethering and WAP or the low speed packet for tethering/WAP. It doesn't have color, doesn't act as a PDA or any of that other stuff, and I am not likely to purchase a phone that does either. I don't need it I pick up phones when they are cheap, and meet my requirements. I only gave up the Motorola UBC9000 brick because they never really made a CDMA version (it was made) just very low release volume. So I had to get a compatible phone.
Persons using what ever phone that is 1900 only or any other single band only will realize the problems they have the first time they go some place where there is ZERO 1900 coveage, but tons of 800 coverage. I can think of several areas I go to that fit that criteria and will into the near future. The 800 has been built and these carriers will upgrade it, but there is barely enough volumne for the carrier already there for another to come in and build a new 1900 network or add 1900 unless they have saturated their 800 capacity, and in these areas thats very unlikely. 1900 only phones and digital only phones may work great as long as you never leave neverneverland NYC or similar metro area. I can drive just a few miles outside the my "metro" area here and a CDMA only or TMobile, or Cingular would all be DEAD! NO SERVICE. Verizon, Alltell both work. Spirnt will work a little longer than Cingular and TMobile, but not much, and Sprint still has a huge hole. Just look at their coverage map it looks like a highway map. Off the highway, NO SERVICE!
I don't think that "pda phone" users really care a hoot about what band or not, this crowd only wants the gee whiz features. Getting those may cost them functions in another area like making a call period in some areas. The majority of cell phone users don't understand the underlying issues of the differing formats and frequencies. I would love to see the phone selling structure in the US radically change. Thats one area which I will gladly tout th
GSM - Strike 1 - While this may be the prominent format outside the US. Its is NOT the de facto standard in the US. Remember GSM was MANDATED not chosen by marketplace forces, MANADATED by governments. Have a GSM version all you want, but without a CDMA version, you've locked your self out of 90% of the US market from the start. GSM is not the format to try to push in the US. Have both, better make it a true world phone do GSM and CDMA.
900/1800/1900 - Strike 2 - Frequency coverage is again way too outside US specific. Lack of the 800Mhz coverage used in many areas means your stuck with 1900 in the US and its poor building penetration and in some areas NO SERVICE as there are 800 only areas. Thats why all the US carriers require 800/1900 coverage. This would also make it more of a world phone by adding in 800 where used.
If their primary market is outside the US, they are 100% on the spot, but if DLink is going to try to sell this in the US. They will be required to make these changes to get it to sell.
This won't last in the US very long due to the above 2 reasons alone. Price is another factor. While many of the hordes are buying or getting conned into contracts and subsidised phones, I have not had one in years. I purchase a new phone off EBay, do an online ESN change, done. I don't change my plan (it doesn't even exist any more) and NO CONTRACTS. I its been that way for years, probably 6+ and I have had Verizon since it was BellAtlantic Mobile and they first came along, so thats a little over 20 years for that account. I've had exactly 4 phones during that period. Started with a UBC9000 brick, changed to a Nokia, then had a Audiovox 9000 and have had a 9155 for about 2 years now.
I won't be purchasing one for the two reasons above. As I am not using either of the two worst networks in the US. TMobile or Cingular. I may as well have no coverage as these two are the worst carriers in the US market. The current marketing crap from one of them is spin on a study thats bought and paid for anyway.
To handle distro of the week or day or hour I use the VMPlayer and the Live CD Virtual Machine. DL ISO, create a directory for it, dump ISO in directory, rename to livecd.iso, boot up VMP. Can't beat it.
I've got several distros installed to virtual HD's that I can boot up and try things on. fubar'd the install up, no probelm resotre the back up of the virtual HD, back to where I left off. I am not touching msleases product, I don't want it even if its free.
I spend 99% of my day in Linux doing day to day business. Thanks to VMWare and I am now ready to Penquinista things! Solve a few hardware issues on some PC's related to Highpoint onboard IDE RAID and Soyo Ultra Dragon Motherboards and its all gone from my systems.
VMWare is the only game as far as I am concerned. m$ can just go away.
1) Software install - It MUST be as simple as wimpslease, PERIOD. Desktop users could CARE LESS if its written in Tcl/Tck, if the QT Libraries are used, if gcc 4.0, 3.6, or any thing else like that. 99.99999% of the DESKTOP USERS DON'T CARE!
1a) SOURCE CODE and libaries - End users don't give a damn about it. They want to download your program run the installer be it a script or binary and it does what it needs to install and setup the program.
2) License schmizense! GPL1.0, 2.03, LPGL, Right GPL, Wrong GPL, USERS again DO NOT CARE! Your software is either FREE menaing NO COST, or its COSTS MONEY! There is nothing in between. Your wasting your efforts on getting end users to give a damn about the suorce code and licensing. THEY DO NOT CARE. Software is either FREE or COSTS.
3) There needs to a Microsloth like NON PROFIT ENTITY that puts out the OFFICIAL Linux O/S. This is where Linus would work. How its funded I will leave to the community I have an idea, but that probably chaff the zealots butt too much. Until there is a base OS from which to work from there is too much fragmentation. People look at the various distros and go "Which is the OFFICIAL Linux?" Again, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE EVANGELISM! Put software x on computer a and get z done! Thats it!
There needs to be one main OS that is packed up and that you can EASILY ADD OPTIONS for what ever you want to get what EXTRAS YOU NEED. The base would start with one windo manager, one shell. Add others, use others if you want, the base Linux will start here, extend it beyond this point all you want.
The base OS would be an XP like ready to go OS. Don't like KDE for your window manger, fine. Click install stupid gnome, or Xfce or what ever. There is nothing wrong with having the OPTION to have different window manager offerings, but till there is an official STARTING POINT the end user adoption is going to lanquish. All the distros would start with this base Official Linux and modify what the defaults are for the user. Ubutunu would still use stuipd gnome, Kubunutu would use the default KDE based WM. Just like another company is planning for their next release certain features would be part of the OS for differing verions(distros).
4) EASY UPDATES of software and the OS.
5) Vendors!!! - MUST SUPPORT hardware with drivers as needed. This gets back to it needs to be as simple to install a driver as it is now on a winslease box. Users don't care about what makes it work, they just want to go to megapcmart either online or brick & mortar, come home install hardware, add drivers, works! Driver install issues occur on winsleas, yes, but Linux is not making it easy either.
6) Where is the VIRTUALIZATION OS at? ?? ? ? ? ? VMWare and others have a great idea. Running something like the VMplayer works great to get Linux on winslease, winsleas on Linux BUT.... They run under one or the other OS WHY? ? ? Seems to me the correct way to do this is to generate a Virtulization Layer OS that provides the VM Layer to guest OS's. I thought VMWare started that way but may be confusing it with something else. The VML OS would provide some simple tools to boot up the machine and start up the VM's and virtualize the underlying hardware to each VM. If you've got the hardware and desire to run Linux, winslease, and Mactel OSX fine! (Oh, and apple just release the PPC and X86 versions of the OS to the public already! You want more market share? Heres your chance!)
I have to choose between getting up during dinner / sleeping to answer the phone or dealing with the damn thing ringing every 5 minutes.
Why do you answer the phone ? I've never understood this "need" to answer a phone. Just because it rings does not require that you answer it.
With CallerID you should know whether you need to answer it or not. Unknowns and out of areas should be blocked by either software on a PC or some telcos offer a service to do this which requires you to put in your number or a PIN. NOTE: Be SURE to CHANGE the PIN from the default or any one who knows the default can bypass it. The default is really easy since its 4 DIGITS. HINT!
I don't asnwer phones unless the CallerID is some one who I want to talk with.
I make use of 800/877 numbers extensively to ensure I get a good CallerID via ANI to ICLID translation. So unless your setting a bogus ANI on your trunk (which there are a few who are smart enough to do this, but most don't), your CallerID block just went FIZZT when calling me. I don't give out any number other than the 800/877 numbers and they are set for work, personal, throw aways for things like banks etc.. No one gets a local number.
Result, ZERO telemarketers. Calling an 800/877 for telemarketing purposes is illegal. So is calling for a whole number of others reasons.
People who bawlk at the number when I start out "area code 877..." Ok fine.. heres the last 7 digits and they throw in the local NPA. Fine with me. Some poor sod is getting my calls from all the marketing droids, not me!:)
Oh and that Do Nota Call Registry.... DO NOT USE! Do you really want your unlisted phone number in a database other than the telcos?
I thought this was very common knowledge by now, especially on Slashdot.
Maybe if your into gaming, I would not know the difference unless told as I don't play games that much and what I do is limited to old arcade classics like Pacman and Centipede.
My only knowledge of Mario is that awful movie save Samantha Mathias which is the only reason I know about the movie. The story of the movie made no sense as I didn't/don't know any thing about the game.
The expansion into the US is going very well, btw.
And with the spin off and Wendys move away from it, look for all the US stores to close and the dual stores Wendys/Tims to loose the Tims.
In a few years you can kiss the US Tims goodbye, sadly.:( Oh well, such is the greed factor of certain execs at WI (who have no clue, why sell the division thats making you $$$$).
And you probably better enjoy your Triple and Wendys for that matter while you can....Wendys is on the way out.... Even Dave Thomas kids have little to NO money in WI any more. Theres a hint for you!
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>To hell with them!
Better yet lets just get rid of the whole mess, trademark, copyright, IP, etc...
Create something and you will get paid. Your not going to sit on your fat butt and get paid every time some one thinks about your work.....
Enough with this crap already! ! !
FF comes bundled in most Linux distros, and thats fine, bundle it all you want. I don't use it and want nothing to do with it. Could care less about its existence.
So the ff execs are right in this case, bundled and I still don't and wont use it.
Konqueror is all I use for a browser. Don't work in Konqi, too bad, I won't be back.
Wouldn't have watched regardless of who won the election or the format used.
For those with a long commute your problems have been solved...
http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/17-01/mf_icon_air?currentPage=1
GA might make a comeback if this and similar catch on.
I am just so sick and tired of the sites using Flash for stuff that could easily and better be done with other things like a simple JPG.
As for Mono/Silverlight...MS can stick it. I won't install that for Linux and I am not allowing on the machines I control that still have to use winslopper. Most of them don't even have a current flash version installed, its whatever came with XP which is 6 or something.
With that so outdated alot of the crap sites and ads are defacto blocked. Happy happy joy joy. :)
Its now put up or shut up time for you. You will have to either be a moral person and continue to do whats right or give into the money and coporate greed structure. This is simply a way for them to get you to be their puppet at the least cost for them. Say no! They will move on to the next lowest person on the list.
itunes? ? ? digg????? Puhlease! These have about as as much to do with the internet and its history and development as I do to creating the universe. Under notable/honorable mentions... you've got a ton of stuff that if it didn't exist would mean alot of things would not be around today.....lets seee.. WithOUT FidoNet and BBS' period much of the concept of "netmail" and etc. would be non existant. FidoNet and the BBS community are responsible for alot more than just an "notable mention." SMTP???? HMMMMMM Do you think this might be important????? Naaahhh Its just the PROTOCOL THAT MOVES EMAIL FROM SERVER TO SERVER! Thats not important. SMTP IS A HUGE DEVELOPMENT! Hayes modems??? Ummm HELLO.... With out the ubiquitous Hayes modems and its clones most people would never have been able to connect to an ISP and the Internet......You also totally blew off Compuserve and QLink remember them....they started as serving Commodore users and became A O L ! ! ! Cisco???? Ummm, nope, they certainly are not more worthy than a notable mention......Lets see the fact that they probably make 80-90% of the equipment that makes the internet work couldn't make them important to the development of the internet.....nope..... digg???? Your kidding right?????? digg wouldn't be around if it were not for SLASHDOT! /. /. /. Feel the slashdot effect!?? Ever hear of it????? Around long for digg and its wannabe siblings. You totally blew them off, not even a notable mention.....
JenniCam on notable mention???? You start off with a piece about porn and sex on the internet....well JenniCam was the first and you can not place it on a notable mention list when it started a genre of sites to follow.
Considering some of the other items on the "notable" list... its clear that the writer has not been around the development of internet technologies and is a recent adopter.....the clues??? digg, twitter, itunes! These have ZERO, no LESS THAN ZERO value to the development of the internet except to the mindless sheeple using them.
If you don't know what uucp is and how it was a factor in the expansion and development of the internet then you have no business writing the article. The fact that you put Cisco on a notable mention list shows how little the author understands the development and status quo of the internet.
1) Ye who registers FIRST gets the domain. 2) IP/copyright/trademark/etc don't apply.... 3) Too bad if mcdougals dot com or something points to something not related to that company. 4) If you want the domain so bad you negotiate with the owner to purchase it. All this BS over allowing IP..... early registration in new TLD's etc. is BS..... When a new TLD opens or you open a new company you register the domains that are available to your or approach the owner to sell a registred domain to you. First come, first server. Simple, easy, and no problems until the lawyers show up.
Todays Crossword Puzzle..... Down ...
6 Best Operating System, 5 letters starts with L
Answers
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6 LINUX
No one is interested in your dud os vistcrap
No one is interested in your has been comic
With the epic failure of this campaign I would expect:
1) ad agency fired
2) ad agency employees fired
seinfeld can be funny as a comic at times, sure, in that stupid show.... nope.
and as for the puppet master behind the comic larry david, well I don't find him or his show that funny. The only reason to watch it is for Cheryl Hines who really needs to be in other projects more often....
we've all moved on to Linux and its time the rest of the planet catches up. the ads only confirm it your out of touch with reality and time to just go away, please.
Get Linux
Get your computer back
Get things done
Next to no one in the US and even possibly Canada (even being a Commonwealth country) is going to know what that means. Unless of course they took Latin.
Call it a resume and you willsound/look less like a "tourist."
This story is certified Buzzword-Compliant (R).
Bingo!
Any one interested in creating a new breed of software based radio scanners (those radios used to monitor police, fire, ems, and other signals) for modes not supported on current scanners or to add features can bring their skills to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gnu_radio_scanner/
This is a group looking to build on the GNU Radio blocks.
If I had the mod points you would get them as +5.
You hit the nail on the head. Nexhell is THE WORST POLLUTER of the spectrum out there.
SouthernLinc uses the same iDEN system and when ever there is a problem with adajacent systems THEY FIX IT.
911 is more than just a fowarding number on the POTS side of things.
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When you dial 911 or *something on your cell phone that is simply a forwarded number to a regular POTS line at the PSAP.
If and ONLY IF your carrier and the local PSAP are setup for wireless 911 does a 911 call get routed similar to a regular 911 call which then provides info like the cell site and an ESTIMATED ADDRESS its not exact and this level of cellular 911 is available to a very small area.
911 on POTS is not a forwarded number its routed special and it comes in on 911 trunks, NOT on regular lines. This will help to understand the 911 process:
http://contact.bellsouth.com/email/bbs/phase2/how
As for VOIP and 911 thanks to voncrap and the hordes of non technical users VOIP is now saddled with this issue. Plain and simple there should big huge warnings when signing up that 911 and emergency calling are not supported YOU the CUSTOMER need to make plans to deal with this by 1) Keeping a basic POTS line 2) Having a cell phone 3) Take your safety into your own hands and be prepared
and don't forget fake Budweiser beer.
/.'r who knows the truth and not taken in by yellow water marketing and makers in the US who by and large produce a product that has about as much in common with beer as cola.
Damn strainght! Budvar Budweiser the REAL King of Beers.
schokheiser wuscht and company can just go away with their yellow tinted water.
Glad to see another
Why the hate you ask? . . . .
Simple ask the frech:
1) who will sell mirages to any sand dictator that comes along
2) harbor some of the most radical people on this planet starting with kommeni
3) like them and their quefranbec relations have an ENTIRE GOVERNMENT AGENCY on the preservation of french.... in others words to keep OUT AMERICAN INFLUENCES on culture and lanquage
4) lack of support of its allies, namely the US, since WWII
Plain and simple the snobbery starts in france so I am more than glad to just ignore the place entirely. Not some place I plan on visiting on any trip to Europe..I'd go to downtown Beirut before any place in france
Here's my take. Music, on a large scale, is already dead. Listen to what the MAJORITY of people who actually BUY CDs are buying and listening to. Fly-by-night rapers, one-hit-wonder pop stars, etc.
Pretty much 98% of modern music and thats from about 1976 to present day is CRAP. The 2% thats left is just barely tolerable. That 2% includes stuff like Hindi music that was in several Ballywood movies or alot of other stuff that gets used in movies like a Greek song that was used in The Wire. There are some talented people finding these gems.
I mostly listen to music from the 50-60's, classical, opera, and that 2% from above.... The rest is just schlock... and rap is not music its noise.
I am not purchasing CD's unless they are down right cheap $5.00 or under.
I don't own an ipod or use itunes.. for one thing its apple, and I can't stand them, and two I am not paying that price for music.
I do have a CD player that plays audio CD's or CD-R's with MP3's.
I will download MP3's from where ever I can find them for free, and thats prety much the only place I am going to look for music. I will only purchase the CD if its no where to be had online.
Any CD I purchase comes mostly from Amazon, unless I find some compilation CD in the bargain aisle at Target or WM.
If you want me to pay for music in MP3 or other digital format then:
1) Price - some where between $0.01 and $0.05/MAX is about what I am willing to pay the present $0.99 is OVERPRICED
2) NO DRM! ! ! GOT IT! NO DRM! - Once I purchase the MP3 that file is mine to do with it as I please be it on 50 computers, or 50 MP3's players or what ever, and YES that INLCUDES if I want to copy it to some one else.
Real music is ALREADY DEAD.
1) GSM Is the REQUIREMENT in Europe by MANDATE. You can gloss it over with this or that, the "standards" were set up so one format met those standards, GSM. Suffice it to say you see it one way I see it another, and were not going to agree except to disagree. I heard the various arguments on this for a while and have not changed my opinion. GSM=MANDATED.
2) CDMA in its various formats is the de facto standard, in the US. NO CDMA you've lost out on 90% of the US market. Verizon, Sprint, Alltel (which may as well be Verizon, why don't they just merge and get it over with), US Cellular and a slew of other local and regional carriers. The fact that CDMA is going to be the air interface for the "new and improved" GSM shows they fubar'd with their anti US mind set. Pick the better technology, and thats not GSM.
3) Cingular can promote/crow all they want about being bigger sub count wise, that don't mean a thing. Their network is CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! Poor coverage, poor building penetration, lack of comparable coverage to Verizon. And as for TMobile, I would LOVE to use TMobile for 2 reasons - Catherine Zeta Jones and Deutsche Telekom. One their coverage SUCKS! Its even worse than Sprints 1900 CDMA network. Three networks I wouldn't touch Cingular, Sprint, TMobile in that order. Coverage, Coverage, Coverage and the ability to make a call in that coverage is all that matters. 99.99999% of my very limited calls are voice. The once in a blue moon tether to laptop for emergency and SMS to back up an alpha pager.
4) Verizon is not limiting me or making me ask for permission to use my phone. I purchase a phone which 1) Meets the requirements of the NETWORK ie: 800/1900, CDMA and AMPS (there are still and will continue even past the deadline to provide it analog areas, mostly rural, thus if you have a CDMA only phone your cooked). 2) Meets the features I need. I have had 4 handheld phones FOUR in 20+ years of service.FOUR. Compare that to others, some peple change cell phones more than they change socks and underwear. My present 9155GPX phone is as low tech as it gets. Supports 1x data for tethering and WAP or the low speed packet for tethering/WAP. It doesn't have color, doesn't act as a PDA or any of that other stuff, and I am not likely to purchase a phone that does either. I don't need it I pick up phones when they are cheap, and meet my requirements. I only gave up the Motorola UBC9000 brick because they never really made a CDMA version (it was made) just very low release volume. So I had to get a compatible phone.
Persons using what ever phone that is 1900 only or any other single band only will realize the problems they have the first time they go some place where there is ZERO 1900 coveage, but tons of 800 coverage. I can think of several areas I go to that fit that criteria and will into the near future. The 800 has been built and these carriers will upgrade it, but there is barely enough volumne for the carrier already there for another to come in and build a new 1900 network or add 1900 unless they have saturated their 800 capacity, and in these areas thats very unlikely. 1900 only phones and digital only phones may work great as long as you never leave neverneverland NYC or similar metro area. I can drive just a few miles outside the my "metro" area here and a CDMA only or TMobile, or Cingular would all be DEAD! NO SERVICE. Verizon, Alltell both work. Spirnt will work a little longer than Cingular and TMobile, but not much, and Sprint still has a huge hole. Just look at their coverage map it looks like a highway map. Off the highway, NO SERVICE!
I don't think that "pda phone" users really care a hoot about what band or not, this crowd only wants the gee whiz features. Getting those may cost them functions in another area like making a call period in some areas. The majority of cell phone users don't understand the underlying issues of the differing formats and frequencies. I would love to see the phone selling structure in the US radically change. Thats one area which I will gladly tout th
For the US market, they may as well give up now.
GSM - Strike 1 - While this may be the prominent format outside the US. Its is NOT the de facto standard in the US. Remember GSM was MANDATED not chosen by marketplace forces, MANADATED by governments. Have a GSM version all you want, but without a CDMA version, you've locked your self out of 90% of the US market from the start. GSM is not the format to try to push in the US. Have both, better make it a true world phone do GSM and CDMA.
900/1800/1900 - Strike 2 - Frequency coverage is again way too outside US specific. Lack of the 800Mhz coverage used in many areas means your stuck with 1900 in the US and its poor building penetration and in some areas NO SERVICE as there are 800 only areas. Thats why all the US carriers require 800/1900 coverage. This would also make it more of a world phone by adding in 800 where used.
If their primary market is outside the US, they are 100% on the spot, but if DLink is going to try to sell this in the US. They will be required to make these changes to get it to sell.
This won't last in the US very long due to the above 2 reasons alone. Price is another factor. While many of the hordes are buying or getting conned into contracts and subsidised phones, I have not had one in years. I purchase a new phone off EBay, do an online ESN change, done. I don't change my plan (it doesn't even exist any more) and NO CONTRACTS. I its been that way for years, probably 6+ and I have had Verizon since it was BellAtlantic Mobile and they first came along, so thats a little over 20 years for that account. I've had exactly 4 phones during that period. Started with a UBC9000 brick, changed to a Nokia, then had a Audiovox 9000 and have had a 9155 for about 2 years now.
I won't be purchasing one for the two reasons above. As I am not using either of the two worst networks in the US. TMobile or Cingular. I may as well have no coverage as these two are the worst carriers in the US market. The current marketing crap from one of them is spin on a study thats bought and paid for anyway.
To handle distro of the week or day or hour I use the VMPlayer and the Live CD Virtual Machine. DL ISO, create a directory for it, dump ISO in directory, rename to livecd.iso, boot up VMP. Can't beat it.
I've got several distros installed to virtual HD's that I can boot up and try things on. fubar'd the install up, no probelm resotre the back up of the virtual HD, back to where I left off. I am not touching msleases product, I don't want it even if its free.
I spend 99% of my day in Linux doing day to day business. Thanks to VMWare and I am now ready to Penquinista things! Solve a few hardware issues on some PC's related to Highpoint onboard IDE RAID and Soyo Ultra Dragon Motherboards and its all gone from my systems.
VMWare is the only game as far as I am concerned. m$ can just go away.
Real simple Konqueror doesn't work at Yahoo Mail Beta and only limited functions at GMail, so simple.... I don't use them.
Make them work in Konqueror!
rm firefox
rm mozilla
Whats holding back Linux on the desktop:
1) Software install - It MUST be as simple as wimpslease, PERIOD. Desktop users could CARE LESS if its written in Tcl/Tck, if the QT Libraries are used, if gcc 4.0, 3.6, or any thing else like that. 99.99999% of the DESKTOP USERS DON'T CARE!
1a) SOURCE CODE and libaries - End users don't give a damn about it. They want to download your program run the installer be it a script or binary and it does what it needs to install and setup the program.
2) License schmizense! GPL1.0, 2.03, LPGL, Right GPL, Wrong GPL, USERS again DO NOT CARE! Your software is either FREE menaing NO COST, or its COSTS MONEY! There is nothing in between. Your wasting your efforts on getting end users to give a damn about the suorce code and licensing. THEY DO NOT CARE. Software is either FREE or COSTS.
3) There needs to a Microsloth like NON PROFIT ENTITY that puts out the OFFICIAL Linux O/S. This is where Linus would work. How its funded I will leave to the community I have an idea, but that probably chaff the zealots butt too much. Until there is a base OS from which to work from there is too much fragmentation. People look at the various distros and go "Which is the OFFICIAL Linux?" Again, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE EVANGELISM! Put software x on computer a and get z done! Thats it!
There needs to be one main OS that is packed up and that you can EASILY ADD OPTIONS for what ever you want to get what EXTRAS YOU NEED. The base would start with one windo manager, one shell. Add others, use others if you want, the base Linux will start here, extend it beyond this point all you want.
The base OS would be an XP like ready to go OS. Don't like KDE for your window manger, fine. Click install stupid gnome, or Xfce or what ever. There is nothing wrong with having the OPTION to have different window manager offerings, but till there is an official STARTING POINT the end user adoption is going to lanquish. All the distros would start with this base Official Linux and modify what the defaults are for the user. Ubutunu would still use stuipd gnome, Kubunutu would use the default KDE based WM. Just like another company is planning for their next release certain features would be part of the OS for differing verions(distros).
4) EASY UPDATES of software and the OS.
5) Vendors!!! - MUST SUPPORT hardware with drivers as needed. This gets back to it needs to be as simple to install a driver as it is now on a winslease box. Users don't care about what makes it work, they just want to go to megapcmart either online or brick & mortar, come home install hardware, add drivers, works! Driver install issues occur on winsleas, yes, but Linux is not making it easy either.
6) Where is the VIRTUALIZATION OS at? ?? ? ? ? ? VMWare and others have a great idea. Running something like the VMplayer works great to get Linux on winslease, winsleas on Linux BUT.... They run under one or the other OS WHY? ? ? Seems to me the correct way to do this is to generate a Virtulization Layer OS that provides the VM Layer to guest OS's. I thought VMWare started that way but may be confusing it with something else. The VML OS would provide some simple tools to boot up the machine and start up the VM's and virtualize the underlying hardware to each VM. If you've got the hardware and desire to run Linux, winslease, and Mactel OSX fine! (Oh, and apple just release the PPC and X86 versions of the OS to the public already! You want more market share? Heres your chance!)
I have to choose between getting up during dinner / sleeping to answer the phone or dealing with the damn thing ringing every 5 minutes.
:)
Why do you answer the phone ? I've never understood this "need" to answer a phone. Just because it rings does not require that you answer it.
With CallerID you should know whether you need to answer it or not. Unknowns and out of areas should be blocked by either software on a PC or some telcos offer a service to do this which requires you to put in your number or a PIN. NOTE: Be SURE to CHANGE the PIN from the default or any one who knows the default can bypass it. The default is really easy since its 4 DIGITS. HINT!
I don't asnwer phones unless the CallerID is some one who I want to talk with.
I make use of 800/877 numbers extensively to ensure I get a good CallerID via ANI to ICLID translation. So unless your setting a bogus ANI on your trunk (which there are a few who are smart enough to do this, but most don't), your CallerID block just went FIZZT when calling me. I don't give out any number other than the 800/877 numbers and they are set for work, personal, throw aways for things like banks etc.. No one gets a local number.
Result, ZERO telemarketers. Calling an 800/877 for telemarketing purposes is illegal. So is calling for a whole number of others reasons.
People who bawlk at the number when I start out "area code 877..." Ok fine.. heres the last 7 digits and they throw in the local NPA. Fine with me. Some poor sod is getting my calls from all the marketing droids, not me!
Oh and that Do Nota Call Registry.... DO NOT USE! Do you really want your unlisted phone number in a database other than the telcos?
I thought this was very common knowledge by now, especially on Slashdot.
Maybe if your into gaming, I would not know the difference unless told as I don't play games that much and what I do is limited to old arcade classics like Pacman and Centipede.
My only knowledge of Mario is that awful movie save Samantha Mathias which is the only reason I know about the movie. The story of the movie made no sense as I didn't/don't know any thing about the game.
The expansion into the US is going very well, btw.
:( Oh well, such is the greed factor of certain execs at WI (who have no clue, why sell the division thats making you $$$$).
And with the spin off and Wendys move away from it, look for all the US stores to close and the dual stores Wendys/Tims to loose the Tims.
In a few years you can kiss the US Tims goodbye, sadly.
And you probably better enjoy your Triple and Wendys for that matter while you can....Wendys is on the way out.... Even Dave Thomas kids have little to NO money in WI any more. Theres a hint for you!