South Korea is a world leader in broadband penetration and they started from zero just s few years ago. They're government made it a vital policy to get broadband to everyone, and it worked.
and having a fraction of the land area and higher population densities had nothing to do with it. Honestly, I don't get otherwise rational people even making the comparison.
The US Government needs to wake up, something needs to be done - and quickly before the US becoes a comsumer digital backwater.....
What does that even mean? I'm sorry, but that sounds just as political and bogus and meaningless as the stuff the other side tosses out. What's a "consumer digital bacwater"? What is the detriment, in real, measurable terms, of not having as rapid broadband penetration as countries a fraction of our size? If I go from 2 Mbps to 10 Mbps, what wonderful things happen?
Falling behind what? Some arbitrary political goal? What does universal broadband access give us? What problems does it solve?
I'm not trolling. These are fair and honest questions. The Net is a great informational tool, but are that many people unhappy with their bandwidth? Is broadband *that* important for enough people that this should be considered a crisis?
Where's the next revolution here? Is there one? Content delivery? Whoopee. How's that improve my day to day life? How does that make the mundane drudgery of existence smoother.
Someone compared us to South Korea. If you can't see the problem with that comparison, I mean, geez... (hint: population density) But still, are the Koreans experiencing some sort of magical Vinge singularity?
I propose the Blue Steel program where spammers are hunted down like animals. Sponsored by Colt. Successful hunters will be allowed to mount the heads on their walls.
Orion Buff: I'm here to get approval for my spacecraft operations.
Government Regulator: OK. Now what was the propulsion method again?
OB: We explode nuclear bombs.
GR: (blank stare)
OB: Lots of them.
GR: (blank stare)
OB: You know... for the thrust.
GR: Yes. Well. I'm going to have to ask you to step into the, uh, spproval chamber and Officer Brunehilde will be along to strip sear- check your paperwork in a few minutes.
Stop using "intergalactic" as a generic term for space! It should omly be used hem speaking of spaces or interactions/interchanges between galaxies. And I don't care what Merriam Webster says. It's wrong and hokey when used generically. And I mean "Far Out Space Nuts" hokey.
Use "interplanetary" for Solar System stuff and "interstellar" for travel betwwen stars within a galaxy.
SP2 IE failed to deliver for me. I have popups blocking set to max level, and I get more popups than before SP2. I've tried every setting possible, but they won't go away.
There's also the IE wonder-fun of, when I turn off crap like java and flash, displaying endless "helpful" dialogs (and they are *MODAL* dialogs) that the page I'm viewing needs that piffle turned on, and it won't give me the "never bother me with this useless bullshit again, you evil pile of pig excrement OS" checkbox.
Firefox seems snappy at forst, but it seems to get slower as time goes on. It even takes an increasingly long time just to start when running it for the first time after a reboot. Uninstalling and reinstalling fixes this, but then it just gets slow again.
Which sort of makes it the ultimate WIndows application, I guess.
I still won't go back to IE, though. With IE these days I have to force quit hung browser windows on every fifth site.
Jeff, you're wasting your time. "nysus" is an ideologue, so you are trying to reason with an entity that has completely abandoned reason and critical thought for... whatever it is that goes on in what they call their minds.
Sad, ain't it? I know humanity sucks baboon ass, but we deserve a better destruction than this. I was hoping for the planet-cleaver asteroid, myself, or some really hideous virus that makes your body melt into a puddle of protoplasm.
I wonder if any of you guys who sit and debate over OGG, MP3, AAC, etc etc etc actually LISTEN and ENJOY the music, or just sit there all day debating over which is closer to the original WAV...
The next thing you know, laserbeams from outer space could fry anyone anywhere.
Of course it will always be far cheaper just to send a hired thug to shoot you. I love people who think anyone cares enough about them to point some multibillion dollar array of superscience recon and weaponry in their dirrection.
P.s. I am NOT a crackpot.
No, but well on the way.:-) Keep up the hard work. Try wiritng a small manifesto or keeping a close eye on your mailman.
No, the mildly scratched CD sounds fine due to error correction. And I can make a nice, fresh digital copy of it. You can also get one of those polisher gadgets and fix it.
Putting aside grammatical mistakes of the "article", why do people capitalize MAC as an abreviation for Macintosh? Is there some acronym I'm not familiar with...
If you are going to pontificate on OSes, sit down and figure out the difference between "MAC" and "Mac".
Two pages of the same old piffle and bullcrap cobbled together with second hand string. Honestly, how old is the author? It reads like a dashed off report for a middle school class.
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and having a fraction of the land area and higher population densities had nothing to do with it. Honestly, I don't get otherwise rational people even making the comparison.
The US Government needs to wake up, something needs to be done - and quickly before the US becoes a comsumer digital backwater.....
What does that even mean? I'm sorry, but that sounds just as political and bogus and meaningless as the stuff the other side tosses out. What's a "consumer digital bacwater"? What is the detriment, in real, measurable terms, of not having as rapid broadband penetration as countries a fraction of our size? If I go from 2 Mbps to 10 Mbps, what wonderful things happen?
I'm not trolling. These are fair and honest questions. The Net is a great informational tool, but are that many people unhappy with their bandwidth? Is broadband *that* important for enough people that this should be considered a crisis?
Where's the next revolution here? Is there one? Content delivery? Whoopee. How's that improve my day to day life? How does that make the mundane drudgery of existence smoother.
Someone compared us to South Korea. If you can't see the problem with that comparison, I mean, geez... (hint: population density) But still, are the Koreans experiencing some sort of magical Vinge singularity?
Or is it just more fucking plastic gadgets?
I'm just going to buy all three and retire.
Olympic. 2012. Gold. Summer. Games.
Olympic. 2012. Gold. Summer. Games.
Olympic. 2012. Gold. Summer. Games.
Olympic. 2012. Gold. Summer. Games.
Olympic. 2012. Gold. Summer. Games.
Oh, man, totally broken analogy! D'oh!
You misspelled "best".
I propose the Blue Steel program where spammers are hunted down like animals. Sponsored by Colt. Successful hunters will be allowed to mount the heads on their walls.
Government Regulator: OK. Now what was the propulsion method again?
OB: We explode nuclear bombs.
GR: (blank stare)
OB: Lots of them.
GR: (blank stare)
OB: You know... for the thrust.
GR: Yes. Well. I'm going to have to ask you to step into the, uh, spproval chamber and Officer Brunehilde will be along to strip sear- check your paperwork in a few minutes.
Use "interplanetary" for Solar System stuff and "interstellar" for travel betwwen stars within a galaxy.
There's also the IE wonder-fun of, when I turn off crap like java and flash, displaying endless "helpful" dialogs (and they are *MODAL* dialogs) that the page I'm viewing needs that piffle turned on, and it won't give me the "never bother me with this useless bullshit again, you evil pile of pig excrement OS" checkbox.
Which sort of makes it the ultimate WIndows application, I guess.
I still won't go back to IE, though. With IE these days I have to force quit hung browser windows on every fifth site.
A very small handful of people are disconnected from reality, probably the same percentage as you'd find in any group.
Jeff, you're wasting your time. "nysus" is an ideologue, so you are trying to reason with an entity that has completely abandoned reason and critical thought for... whatever it is that goes on in what they call their minds.
Sad, ain't it? I know humanity sucks baboon ass, but we deserve a better destruction than this. I was hoping for the planet-cleaver asteroid, myself, or some really hideous virus that makes your body melt into a puddle of protoplasm.
No, you're not. Much of PC gaming, with rare exceptions, has become a wanking contest between different 3D engine developers.
WAV files suck. :-)
Of course it will always be far cheaper just to send a hired thug to shoot you. I love people who think anyone cares enough about them to point some multibillion dollar array of superscience recon and weaponry in their dirrection.
P.s. I am NOT a crackpot.
No, but well on the way. :-) Keep up the hard work. Try wiritng a small manifesto or keeping a close eye on your mailman.
No, the mildly scratched CD sounds fine due to error correction. And I can make a nice, fresh digital copy of it. You can also get one of those polisher gadgets and fix it.
Is someone going to start making fake smart cards for free sandwiches?
It's like auto theft. Nothing makes a car unstealable, but you only have to have enough so that it take longer than the thief wants to spend.
No.
I thought some other company did that. Obscure little outfit. What where they called... IBC? IBD? IBM? Something like that?
Magnificent Amazing Computer :-)
Two pages of the same old piffle and bullcrap cobbled together with second hand string. Honestly, how old is the author? It reads like a dashed off report for a middle school class.
Slow news day?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibili ty
I smell a crossover advert.