They don't have to if they use the recently purchased dark (offline) fiber lines that were left out there. Just feed the fibers and run them through your Google hardware - voila!! Google WiFi to all !!
It doesn't take much to get all of our devices on a standard (see: cheap from the cable co.) remote. With about 5 minutes of time looking up the codes, my remote easily controls the HD monitor, cable box w/ DVR, audio receiver, dvd, and vcr. Not sure why you would have to go out and spend ~$100 on a fancy remote when the cable remote (and other cheaper ones) already do just fine.
http://www.msnbc.com/ renders horribly on Firefox (duh, MS owned site) but when you try to view any video, slideshows, etc. the resultant poop-up windows all refer you to getting IE 6.
Not that it's a big deal, but it is one of the highest-volume news sites on the WWW. Don't you think that us FireFoxers would like to see Today Show interviews and replays of the Genesis probe crashing in the desert???
He's not holding anyone over hot coals to buy any of them, is he?
I, for one, will purchase the DVDs for this simple fact. They are entertainment. A way to blow 6-7 hours of time away to be entertained. Not to relive childhood fantasies (I owned a vast majority of the SW universe in action figure form, the first time), not to find historical inaccuracies (enough of the "who shot first?" drama), but to be entertained by one of the best overall stories ever put to film by someone who, although he has succumbed to the ever-present need to make money, made the majority of your lives a little bit better by making something that everyone so feverishly fights and nitpicks over.
I know that people tend to argue for/against something that they hold dear, but I know that when I put these DVDs in my player at home, I will be sure of one thing. I will be entertained. I hope everyone who buys these DVDs will get the same.
All you anti-MS clowns do is bitch and bitch about their products, but what are you doing to solve the problem? Nothing ?!
MS is in 90% of computer on the market. You who sit upon the pedestal of rightousness and espouse the goodness that is everything anti-MS are 1/10 of the people who use computers. Now if math serves me that leaves 9/10 people using the product and not making a switch to all the other possiblities that are oh-so fabulous. If they are so fabulous, then why are are the MS haters only making up a 1/10 of the computer world?
And don't give me the monopoly crap, or you were forced to use it, or any other conspiracy crap. Were you forced at gunpoint to install MS OSes? Is the normal consumer going to buy a computer with an unknow, untested OS on it or the one that has been used for years and is the standard-bearer. I am not saying that MS is perfect, but you look at/. threads about anything MS and all it is good for is bitching about Bill Gates this, and never use MS that.
Take cars for instance. The US dominated the car market for 60 years until a small group made them, better, cheaper, and more secure. So what did the US autos do? Completely changed the way they do business and determined that noone is buying crapily made cars that rust out after 2 years. Now they are on par with foreign automakers in terms of quality and are slowly regaining market share back in the US. It took time, but they were able to do it. MS is no different, sure they may worry a little about the open source, but they have such a massive foothold in the world market that open source funzones like/. are a great place to talk a LOT of talk about how crappy it is, but what are you doing about fixing it? Not buying MS software? Who buys it from a vendor around here for face value?
Continue using your open source stuff while the rest of the world continues to use MS for what it is. And yes, that includes all the issues, holes, bugs, etc. that come along with it.
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They don't have to if they use the recently purchased dark (offline) fiber lines that were left out there. Just feed the fibers and run them through your Google hardware - voila!! Google WiFi to all !!
It doesn't take much to get all of our devices on a standard (see: cheap from the cable co.) remote. With about 5 minutes of time looking up the codes, my remote easily controls the HD monitor, cable box w/ DVR, audio receiver, dvd, and vcr. Not sure why you would have to go out and spend ~$100 on a fancy remote when the cable remote (and other cheaper ones) already do just fine.
http://www.msnbc.com/ renders horribly on Firefox (duh, MS owned site) but when you try to view any video, slideshows, etc. the resultant poop-up windows all refer you to getting IE 6. Not that it's a big deal, but it is one of the highest-volume news sites on the WWW. Don't you think that us FireFoxers would like to see Today Show interviews and replays of the Genesis probe crashing in the desert???
....now.
He's not holding anyone over hot coals to buy any of them, is he?
I, for one, will purchase the DVDs for this simple fact. They are entertainment. A way to blow 6-7 hours of time away to be entertained. Not to relive childhood fantasies (I owned a vast majority of the SW universe in action figure form, the first time), not to find historical inaccuracies (enough of the "who shot first?" drama), but to be entertained by one of the best overall stories ever put to film by someone who, although he has succumbed to the ever-present need to make money, made the majority of your lives a little bit better by making something that everyone so feverishly fights and nitpicks over.
I know that people tend to argue for/against something that they hold dear, but I know that when I put these DVDs in my player at home, I will be sure of one thing. I will be entertained. I hope everyone who buys these DVDs will get the same.
All you anti-MS clowns do is bitch and bitch about their products, but what are you doing to solve the problem? Nothing ?!
/. threads about anything MS and all it is good for is bitching about Bill Gates this, and never use MS that.
/. are a great place to talk a LOT of talk about how crappy it is, but what are you doing about fixing it? Not buying MS software? Who buys it from a vendor around here for face value?
MS is in 90% of computer on the market. You who sit upon the pedestal of rightousness and espouse the goodness that is everything anti-MS are 1/10 of the people who use computers. Now if math serves me that leaves 9/10 people using the product and not making a switch to all the other possiblities that are oh-so fabulous. If they are so fabulous, then why are are the MS haters only making up a 1/10 of the computer world?
And don't give me the monopoly crap, or you were forced to use it, or any other conspiracy crap. Were you forced at gunpoint to install MS OSes? Is the normal consumer going to buy a computer with an unknow, untested OS on it or the one that has been used for years and is the standard-bearer. I am not saying that MS is perfect, but you look at
Take cars for instance. The US dominated the car market for 60 years until a small group made them, better, cheaper, and more secure. So what did the US autos do? Completely changed the way they do business and determined that noone is buying crapily made cars that rust out after 2 years. Now they are on par with foreign automakers in terms of quality and are slowly regaining market share back in the US. It took time, but they were able to do it. MS is no different, sure they may worry a little about the open source, but they have such a massive foothold in the world market that open source funzones like
Continue using your open source stuff while the rest of the world continues to use MS for what it is. And yes, that includes all the issues, holes, bugs, etc. that come along with it.