So basically you use Konqueror so you can complain about nothing ever working? That's a great idea actually... whenever my credit card comany charges me a late fee I always try and blame it on the browser, "I made the payment but my browser, Konqueror 3.3.2, just said "javascript error" or something, I thought it went through!
I predict that the web moves in the direction of apps rich in client side programming, like google maps. It makes no difference to the user whether or not something is compatible with all future, present and past browsers, only that the app works, looks good and is easy to use.
In other news, a new study by a liberal Washington think tank puts the cost of forcibly removing most of the nation's estimated 10 million illegal immigrants at $41 billion a year, a sum that exceeds the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security.
The satellite radio industry is making exclusive partnerships with automobile makers to include their radios in their cars, how about the phone companies, cell phone companies in particular, that bundle long distance with everything? Voicemail even. There are starving callwave execs out there! Mcdonalds only sells coke products, taco bell only sells pepsi products. Ford automobiles are only shipped with firestone tires, right?
I agree that linux is getting closer and closer to the ideal, and it has a lot more potential than windows, but currently these tools are all buggy like you say. I update firefox frequently, hoping some of these bugs will go away. The browser will just segfault on our CSR's all the time, they come to me and ask why and I give the tired response "Software bugs... restart". My windows firefox doesn't ever crash, it seems more stable on windows believe it or not.
So there are trade-offs, and like you say it would be easy for me to configure all of that stuff, but a week of my time is worth a dozen windows licenses to the business owner. I'd like to see what Novell and Sun come up with, Apple appears to be having success with their desktop.
Besides, the article is talking about what it costs the industry, no mention of what it costs the consumer. Microsoft may actually make a lot more than a competitive industry, as the purely competitive producer makes nearly nothing.
It seems ridiculous that they can come up with any figure at all, especially in a technological industry which has a tendency to change the way we think about economics in the last few years. Like someone else said, it's just as ridiculous as trying to figure out how much software piracy costs the industry. The article is full of bias, I'm not saying I don't share the same bias, I'm just saying it is and you need to recognize it and take what the article is saying for what it's worth, nothing.
I'm speaking from experience. We run a bunch of old ThinkNIC thin clients here with linux. One thing that they have a hard time adjusting to is the file system structure, email attachments are always getting lost and they don't know how to find them. Use the locate/find commands? No way.. they need a little puppy to help them search. If you want to run linux it has got to be as much like windows as it can be.
Well you obviously haven't thought about how much time would be spent helping people with their linux machines. There are other options, like those sun thin clients. But in my experience most people don't even know how to use firefox, let alone a completely new OS.
Where do they come up with a figure like that? Put on a blindfold and throw a dart? That's ridiculous. It probably does cost the industry, but the fact that they have to come up with a number at all demonstrates some level of bias here.
When I was about 18, I worked at a local incoming call center and my trainer there happened to also be a popular local DJ (I guess they don't make much). Once he introduced himself, he asked if anybody had any questions for him, I was the only one that spoke up. "Why do you guys always play the same lousy songs? Are you getting paid to play them?", his reponse was "You mean Payola? No, payola is illegal. What happens is the record companies will buy stuff for us, like they will put a free vending machine in our office or something." Interesting that the DJ's didn't think anything of it, apparently this one didn't even know that was illegal. The radio station owner probably did. What they aught to do is fine the DJs and radio stations, with their limited incomes, not the record companies. There is not much for them to gain, in fact they probably lose listeners when they sell out to record companies.
Why do we get a battlestar galactica plug every week? I could personally care less about some low-budget TV show, and I've got better things to do on Friday night, like organize my sock drawer and pay my bills.
You guys in Australia have stockpiles of nuclear resources, uranium and thorium (which can easily be transformed into Uranium in a nuclear reactor). That's probably the reason they're pursueing hydrogen down there!
I think hacking aught to be comparible to arson, destruction of private property. If someone makes a worm that's sole purpose is to destroy....
Of course, arson is more likely to kill people, but many people don't realize how many lives depend on the world economy. Every million dollars wasted in the US may be a starving child in the third world.
I think its their marketing practices that have turned public opinion against them, like microsoft. They have become a burden on the industry with their non-price competition.
Well, I actually asked my friend in the army special forces "Why don't people rat these terrorists out when they are laying in an alley waiting for a convoy to pass by their roadside bomb?" and he said the army actually gives money to guys for ratting the terrorists out, so the terrorists now have to hide from the civilians. They are now using cordless phones wired to bombs, and that's the first thing he's trained to look for when he storms a house is a cordless phone base without the phone. That's what the military commanders mean when they say the bombs are getting more sophisticated. It just seems to me like more people would be opposed to the terrorists, and he confirmed that they are. They just don't want to get involved in the conflict, they want to hide in their houses when gunfire erupts. It's the silent majority. That's what I mean by go with your instincts, I think you can trust that they are on our side, even if they are greeting us with flowers everywhere we go.
As for taking over the media, you know that's not practical, if it's even possible. Al Jazeera is a private organization based in Qatar, one of our best middle east allies. But we deal with the same corrupt media here in the US, *cough* Dan Rather *cough* Newsweek.
There were a lot of people liberated when the berlin wall fell that could explain the price of freedom to you. Research some of the countless civil wars fought all over the world and it might shed some light on the subject of freedom. The brainless drones are the ones who never fought for anything.
reminds me of the time I got on a horse drawn wagon ride with a group of people, I asked the driver "If this thing tips over can I sue you?", he made me get off and gave me a refund.
What are you talking about now, blair bitch project dude? Free xbox dude? You're a fucking moron. What can I even say to someone who thinks a neo-con is a fascist? You have no fucking clue. You'd just as soon advocate removal by force of a democractically elected president as you would burn the American flag. Why don't you leave the country? Oh, still living with mommy, that's right.
What if George Bush had met with Al Queda #2, would you have the same attitude? "Oh it's just a meeting!" Rumsfeld was a diplomat, Zawahiri was a terrorist.
As for the links between Saddam and Al Queda, it's just so silly of you fools to carry on with this. Saddam pledged $20,000 to the families of palestinian suicide bombers. That is direct support of terrorism! That article I gave had so many pieces of information, the 9/11 commission didn't completely disprove anything! The 9/11 commission came up with a lot of evidence to support the war, you liberals like to harp on one or two lines, like that there were no connections between Saddam and 9/11 (NEVERMIND THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SADDAM AND AL QAEDA!). That is an oft mis-represented fact, Saddam actually DID have many ties to Al Queda, and those are just the ones we know of. Get your facts straight, moron. Read the damn 9/11 commission report, in full.
Except that there aren't. Someone else in this story quoted the US Government numbers that there have been more terrorist attacks so far this year than in all of 2004. Someone else posted a link to a pretty graphic showing the number of Americans who died of terrorism overseas (so as to exclude the WTC attacks) during Clinton's 8 years, and Bush's era has already managed to beat him in 5.
You're ignoring 9/11 entirely. I'm measure since 9/11, and I wouldn't soldiers KIA terrorism, that's war. Once you weigh in the 3,000+ civilians who died in 9/11 the figures change significantly.
Meanwhile, we sell off American interest in Iraq. Yeah, I'm sorry you don't get the cheap oil and I'm sure Halliburton will be pissed Cheney couldn't save it, but we set up Iraqi companies to pump the oil, Iraqi companies to run the pipelines. We trade reasonable contracts for business startup loans and the power to audit those companies and make sure that they're not producing crude and plastique. Suddenly that supply caravan isn't such a fun target when they're run by Iraqis, not Americans. A man pumping oil for a wage to support his family is no longer quite so desparate to blow himself up.
The Iraqi oil assets will undoubtedly be owned and operated by the state, once it's ready. I don't know what you heard about Haliburton, but they're contracted to build the things, they dont own them, although I think Iraq should pay us back in oil for the price of their new and improved country. It really has little effect on their economy, gas is 5 cents per gallon in Iraq.
As for Iran, I think they see nuclear armaments as the only way to prevent America from sparking a revolution in their country. Everybody knows they need a revolution, we're just hoping it comes about on its own. I think we'll have to destroy their reactor eventually, if the Israeli's destroy it it will only cause more fighting.
Finally, and this is the one we REALLY fucked up on, you cannot kill an idea with a bullet. You can only kill an idea with a better idea, the only way to win this war is to win everyone's minds. Do you know what idea we're fighting here? "America is Evil". Every day the kids go to their religious schools where they're told "America is Evil". Then they go home and turn on the news and see the latest bombing of someplace or another, always spun to make sure that "America is Evil". Finally, their best friend gets shot in the street, probably he didn't see who did it, these days it probably wasn't even an American. But what does that kid scream? "America is Evil!" It is this that we are fighting against. If we are to win, we must change that droning chant in their mind to something preferrably less malign, or at least so something along the lines of "Terrorist fundamentalists are Evil"
You are right on, except for the "we fucked up" part. I don't know how you expect anything to change without military intervention. Diplomacy hasn't worked. You're advocating a Clintonesque foreign policy? I think Clinton just didn't want to deal with foreign policy. It was not some plan of his to ignore all the problems in the world, it was to protect his presidency from scrutiny. Killing terrorists is fine, it's justice. Regime change is a separate goal, but will ultimately solve the same problems. I expect the hate speech will dissipate when Iraq has a more open form of government, when the world press can go in there and see what their schools are like. When people are happy, when they have something to live for, whether it's the pool they want to build in their backyard, or the european sports car they want, or that trip to polynesia, when people are happy, there is a lot less to bitch about! Ask yourself why you don't care to hear someone elses hate speech? Why wouldn't you go and blow yourself up? It's cause you're happy, you're well off. The Iraqi's are going to start experiencing that now.
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So basically you use Konqueror so you can complain about nothing ever working? That's a great idea actually... whenever my credit card comany charges me a late fee I always try and blame it on the browser, "I made the payment but my browser, Konqueror 3.3.2, just said "javascript error" or something, I thought it went through!
I predict that the web moves in the direction of apps rich in client side programming, like google maps. It makes no difference to the user whether or not something is compatible with all future, present and past browsers, only that the app works, looks good and is easy to use.
Yeah I have noticed that the IE javascript debugger is worth nil. The errors are almost completely useless.
In other news, a new study by a liberal Washington think tank puts the cost of forcibly removing most of the nation's estimated 10 million illegal immigrants at $41 billion a year, a sum that exceeds the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security.
The satellite radio industry is making exclusive partnerships with automobile makers to include their radios in their cars, how about the phone companies, cell phone companies in particular, that bundle long distance with everything? Voicemail even. There are starving callwave execs out there! Mcdonalds only sells coke products, taco bell only sells pepsi products. Ford automobiles are only shipped with firestone tires, right?
So there are trade-offs, and like you say it would be easy for me to configure all of that stuff, but a week of my time is worth a dozen windows licenses to the business owner. I'd like to see what Novell and Sun come up with, Apple appears to be having success with their desktop.
And just how, do tell, did they figure that out?
Besides, the article is talking about what it costs the industry, no mention of what it costs the consumer. Microsoft may actually make a lot more than a competitive industry, as the purely competitive producer makes nearly nothing.
It seems ridiculous that they can come up with any figure at all, especially in a technological industry which has a tendency to change the way we think about economics in the last few years. Like someone else said, it's just as ridiculous as trying to figure out how much software piracy costs the industry. The article is full of bias, I'm not saying I don't share the same bias, I'm just saying it is and you need to recognize it and take what the article is saying for what it's worth, nothing.
I'm speaking from experience. We run a bunch of old ThinkNIC thin clients here with linux. One thing that they have a hard time adjusting to is the file system structure, email attachments are always getting lost and they don't know how to find them. Use the locate/find commands? No way.. they need a little puppy to help them search. If you want to run linux it has got to be as much like windows as it can be.
Well you obviously haven't thought about how much time would be spent helping people with their linux machines. There are other options, like those sun thin clients. But in my experience most people don't even know how to use firefox, let alone a completely new OS.
Where do they come up with a figure like that? Put on a blindfold and throw a dart? That's ridiculous. It probably does cost the industry, but the fact that they have to come up with a number at all demonstrates some level of bias here.
When I was about 18, I worked at a local incoming call center and my trainer there happened to also be a popular local DJ (I guess they don't make much). Once he introduced himself, he asked if anybody had any questions for him, I was the only one that spoke up. "Why do you guys always play the same lousy songs? Are you getting paid to play them?", his reponse was "You mean Payola? No, payola is illegal. What happens is the record companies will buy stuff for us, like they will put a free vending machine in our office or something." Interesting that the DJ's didn't think anything of it, apparently this one didn't even know that was illegal. The radio station owner probably did. What they aught to do is fine the DJs and radio stations, with their limited incomes, not the record companies. There is not much for them to gain, in fact they probably lose listeners when they sell out to record companies.
Karma? That wouldn't be Karma, Only if his spam killed people would it be Karma.
Why do we get a battlestar galactica plug every week? I could personally care less about some low-budget TV show, and I've got better things to do on Friday night, like organize my sock drawer and pay my bills.
You guys in Australia have stockpiles of nuclear resources, uranium and thorium (which can easily be transformed into Uranium in a nuclear reactor). That's probably the reason they're pursueing hydrogen down there!
This guy is the definition of liberal right here, everybody take a good look, he'll probably be dead of a drug overdose shortly.
Of course, arson is more likely to kill people, but many people don't realize how many lives depend on the world economy. Every million dollars wasted in the US may be a starving child in the third world.
I think its their marketing practices that have turned public opinion against them, like microsoft. They have become a burden on the industry with their non-price competition.
As for taking over the media, you know that's not practical, if it's even possible. Al Jazeera is a private organization based in Qatar, one of our best middle east allies. But we deal with the same corrupt media here in the US, *cough* Dan Rather *cough* Newsweek.
There were a lot of people liberated when the berlin wall fell that could explain the price of freedom to you. Research some of the countless civil wars fought all over the world and it might shed some light on the subject of freedom. The brainless drones are the ones who never fought for anything.
Haha, that was funny. Good times.
What are you talking about now, blair bitch project dude? Free xbox dude? You're a fucking moron. What can I even say to someone who thinks a neo-con is a fascist? You have no fucking clue. You'd just as soon advocate removal by force of a democractically elected president as you would burn the American flag. Why don't you leave the country? Oh, still living with mommy, that's right.
So you're wrong? Is that what you're saying? You're a liar? That's what it sounds like...
As for the links between Saddam and Al Queda, it's just so silly of you fools to carry on with this. Saddam pledged $20,000 to the families of palestinian suicide bombers. That is direct support of terrorism! That article I gave had so many pieces of information, the 9/11 commission didn't completely disprove anything! The 9/11 commission came up with a lot of evidence to support the war, you liberals like to harp on one or two lines, like that there were no connections between Saddam and 9/11 (NEVERMIND THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SADDAM AND AL QAEDA!). That is an oft mis-represented fact, Saddam actually DID have many ties to Al Queda, and those are just the ones we know of. Get your facts straight, moron. Read the damn 9/11 commission report, in full.
You're ignoring 9/11 entirely. I'm measure since 9/11, and I wouldn't soldiers KIA terrorism, that's war. Once you weigh in the 3,000+ civilians who died in 9/11 the figures change significantly.
The Iraqi oil assets will undoubtedly be owned and operated by the state, once it's ready. I don't know what you heard about Haliburton, but they're contracted to build the things, they dont own them, although I think Iraq should pay us back in oil for the price of their new and improved country. It really has little effect on their economy, gas is 5 cents per gallon in Iraq.
As for Iran, I think they see nuclear armaments as the only way to prevent America from sparking a revolution in their country. Everybody knows they need a revolution, we're just hoping it comes about on its own. I think we'll have to destroy their reactor eventually, if the Israeli's destroy it it will only cause more fighting.
You are right on, except for the "we fucked up" part. I don't know how you expect anything to change without military intervention. Diplomacy hasn't worked. You're advocating a Clintonesque foreign policy? I think Clinton just didn't want to deal with foreign policy. It was not some plan of his to ignore all the problems in the world, it was to protect his presidency from scrutiny. Killing terrorists is fine, it's justice. Regime change is a separate goal, but will ultimately solve the same problems. I expect the hate speech will dissipate when Iraq has a more open form of government, when the world press can go in there and see what their schools are like. When people are happy, when they have something to live for, whether it's the pool they want to build in their backyard, or the european sports car they want, or that trip to polynesia, when people are happy, there is a lot less to bitch about! Ask yourself why you don't care to hear someone elses hate speech? Why wouldn't you go and blow yourself up? It's cause you're happy, you're well off. The Iraqi's are going to start experiencing that now.