From what I have gathered, google indexes only 13 different file types for SEO purposes, with the XAML of SilverLight not being among those counted. The thinking is that because Microsoft Live Search will obviously index XAML pages that Google will quickly follow suit so as to not lose a competitive edge with the MS search engine.
Yeah, or I could just take my business to NewEgg.com, which has one of the most amazing customer satisfaction ratings in the industry. Oh, did I mention competitive prices, unfathomable quality of customer service and reliability that has spanned the breadth of their online existence? Pfft, The day I started using NewEgg 7 years ago was the day that I lost interest in the computer/electronic superstores of the past.
OK, let's say comcast has 29.9 million subscribers, and they consider attempting to purchase another local cable provider that has a potential reach of.2 million customers. That would put them over the limit, and prevent them from purchasing that provider, leaving them open to bids by giantconglomeratemonopolyprovider #2.
No, its not. It has nothing to do with a 'hesitation to adapt new technology.' Apple is for snobby elitist hippies and linux is for antisocial OCD nerds. That's the image that their marketing strategies have managed to cultivate. Why use windows? It's cheaper than Apple, gives me more options, and i don't have to manually do everything like I would with linux. I use windows because out of the box I can play games with my friends, I can connect it to my 360, I can use 100% of the software that I WANT to use. If these things are even possible with your alternatives, you have done a pathetic job of making that information available to the non-geek inclined public.
Three days IS long enough to hit the reply button, acknowledge the message and inform them that you are looking at potential options. Even if I typed one key per minute, I could have that message sent in under two hours, leaving me 70 hours to find someone who can type faster and defend me. The guy in question did not even make an attempt to acknowledge Google's efforts to provide him an opportunity to refute the charges. Blaming google for this is just stupid.
Yes, they legally bought the tickets. They also agreed to abide by the rules and conditions that went along with ownership of that ticket. I realize that most comments here are of the 'how dare anyone try to tell me to abide by rules or agreements' attitude, but that still does not mean that there are some of us who believe that our word and signature should have some value. When I agree to a commitment, then upholding my end of that agreement should be a given.
When the season ticket was purchased, the buyer agreed that the ticket purchased was for their own personal use, or that barring that, they would not attempt to resell that ticket at an unreasonable markup. Many of my friends are die-hard american football fans, but most of us have never been able to afford to actually go to a game. When a $125 dollar ticket is being illegally resold for thousands of dollars, it means that we lose the chance to go enjoy the support that thrives on our passionate allegiance.
I don't have a problem with the guy standing in line for the tickets buying 6 tickets when he only needs 4 and turning around to sell the other 2. My real problem is these companies that have automated the process of going online to purchase all of the valuable or reasonable tickets as soon as they are available. It's just... well, it sucks.
You really think that the only issue keeping linux in the closet is that nobody knows anything about it? Most people I know have heard of linux, and are terrified about it, because it has a reputation for being a complete maintenance nightmare, impossible to support, and useless in terms of third-party application support. You can argue the validity of these arguments to each other until the RIAA starts saving kittens, but the fact is, the public perception of what linux represents is what keeps users away. Horrible first-time experiences, word of mouth, egotistical users unwilling to compromise for the lesser human denominator.
And this comment will be followed telling me that (X distrobution is so great, I installed it in 3 minutes and it even makes me toast). The last serious experience I had with linux involved downloading 9 different distros and attempting to install them on a dedicated hard drive. Not a single one of them gave me a seamless installation process. *Why do you have a USB mouse? Installation halted. *Your sound card does not recognize our native drivers. Go away. *You need to do such and such to use a PCI-E video card. Yeah, right.
I mean just stupid, mundane things that these operating systems can't even default to something or do on their own. If i'm installing a clean OS, i dont WANT to save piles of driver disks. I dont WANT to remember to unplug my USB 2.0 webcam. Why do you enthusiasts continue populating the internet with comments and posts and threads about replacing windows with linux, and still find it impossible to give me a single distrobution that does what I want.
Install with no more assistance than 'what time zone are you in?' followed by automatically updating ALL of my hardware drivers. Serve this with a nice course of computer gaming options (installing a windows-emulator does not count. look up 'redundant' for that one).
I'd keep typing, but I need a smoke, and realized that whatever rambling point I may have made was done such many extraneous sentence fragments ago. Thanks for giving me something to read.
Just for no reason btw, my online reading pattern is cnn.com->nfl.com->msnbc.com->news.google.com->slashdot.org->tmz.com->back to facebook
I just thought I should chime in....I have been a huge fan of almost everything I've heard on http://www.cstrecords.com/constellation records. About them, and this feels applicable to the nature of the thread,
Constellation was fiercely anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, and anti-globalist; its mission, according to its founders, was to "enact a mode of cultural production that critiques the worst tendencies of the music industry, artistic commodification, and perhaps in some tiny way, the world at large." It also hoped to recover and rebuild an independent music ethic that it saw as commodified and corporatized.
ok seriously, who cares about the warranty. the non-functional/recoverable 600 dollar phone is something people DO care about. (yeah i know, warranty good etc - point is, the issue is more about the lack of use of your iphone)
So just because this guy looks at real-world economic implications of a problem instead of jumping on an 'al gore is right!' bandwagon, the comment was modded to 'troll' - that's some kind of wrong there, somehow.
Look at it from another point. While people KNOW about Halo 3, what they are attempting to do is create 'excitement' about the title. This excitement will increase the number of people who rush out to buy the game on the first day of release.
Microsoft has 60,827,000,000 shares of stock currently, so a 25 cent per share increase due to an amazing day of sales means an increase in net worth of 60,826,999,975. I'm no financial expert, but a few minutes of stock research via wikipedia and google finance with some trend history from previous halo launches kind of points in that direction. Even if those numbers ARE dramatic, something that triggers a relatively large increase in stock value, even temporary could mean a lot to someone holding on to tons of shares of microsoft that wants to unload afterwards to turn a quick dime.
Interesting statistic - if every chinese citizen spent one minute a day filtering content, that equals 2,515 manpower YEARS a day. Having 1,321,851,888 citizens and 1,185,000,000,000 dollars in cash reserves means they can probably afford to pay one or two people to do the job.
Assuming that your program manages to differentiate itself from the 255 million other software programs that do that exact same thing, the answer to your question is none.
If the piracy community wants your software for free and considers it worth having, then they will have it. You can't do anything about it. Ask Apple or Sony or Microsoft about how much money they spend protecting their software from piracy. Ask the 16 year old kid from New Jersey how many episodes of Pokemon he had to miss to destroy that protection.
Is where I'm going with this making itself clear? You are already jumping into a small pond full of big fish, why waste your energy and resources attempting the impossible? Use an honor system, and hope that enough honest people use your product to justify your expenditures.
lithium has been used as a mood stabilizer for well over a hundred years. and it is given to people to treat the symptoms of bipolar affective disorder, but it is NOT a treatment for the disorder itself. bipolar affective disorder is a multitriggered genetic mutation that is activated during or around puberty if the person with the genetic mutation is experiencing extreme social and/or psychological duress. the combination of pubescent chemical signals with the release of extra serotonins combine to 'activate' the mutation which then manifests in its cyclothermic stage. over the next decade of life, the disorder evolves until it finally resolves into whichever state you will then live with for the duration of your life.
lithium stabilizes the release of the nervous system's serotonins which acts to prevent the manic episodes from manifesting in their usual extreme states. however, the actual triggering events are heightened stress levels and sudden anxiety attacks. lithium prevents you from straying from your dosed mental state, which means (and im not 100% certain on this) that you also lose the emotional highs and lows that come with a normal life. for some people it's a good trade, for others it can be a torturous existence.
bipolar disorder is used as a pharmaceutical 'catchall' for doctors to solve common mental ailments by doping their patients to the teeth on overpriced medications.
from the research i have read, bipolar affective disorder is an incurable genetic mutation that is prevalent in a vastly higher percentage of people than the numbers of those actually with the disorder. the pharmaceutical industry gets rich beyond belief bankrolling mental illness. i don't have numbers offhand, but i think their profit margins rival the oil industry.
the other problem i have, (and this is SO off-topic, but it IS a reply to another post, so am I off-topic, or is the parent?:P) is that the government regularly reallocates financing earmarked for mental health treatment to vote-getting hotspots like aids/cancer research. i believe the NIMH once stated that only 40% of financing intended for treatment and study of mental health does not get reallocated to other medical projects. granted, the only way to cure a disorder of this magnitude would be reverse engineering an RNA retrovirus and introducing it on a global scale preventing it from being passed on to successive generations, but i can't even fantasize any circumstance that would enable feasibility on that.
note: i'm no medical expert, i never went to medical school - im a 29 year old high school grad who spent 15 years yanking every exposed medical publication's research papers dealing with mental issues and disorders. im bipolar, with a combination of insomnia, mild obsessive compulsive behavior and a very short attention span. this means i have read WAY too much literature on this crap. but i've also been counseling and supporting other people who want to understand the nature of being bipolar.
The White House issued a statement today that we will be proceeding with an investigation in the possibility that Iran is in fact hiding or aiding in the concealment of a vast quantity of NMC's, or Nuts of Mass Consumption. Early reports indicate that the nuts in question were intercepted by the French on their way to a Jericho revival party. This could be the beginning of Nostradomus' famed Peanut Butter Jelly War of the 21st century.
Ok....I'm curious how this was marked informative instead of funny:P Someone came on to slashdot, and stated that as a regular internet user they enjoyed the lack of advertising....As I type this reply, I am looking at an ad for Barracuda spam firewalls (btw, they mention free evaluation units available!)
I demand a modification of the 'informative' status until he presents clear and precise information on how he has managed to avoid being attacked by advertising online!:P
My actual only comment on that post was that he says he has a cable modem but no broadcast stations. I'm pretty sure that they HAVE to have at least given you the 'basic' channels with that (i.e. abc,cbs,nbc) - even if you don't use them, im pretty sure that if you plugged the coax from your modem into a television you'd have basic cable channels:P
but yeah, I don't miss television either. youtube is much better than the funny commercials!
Did you read the article or any of the following comments? How about the synopsis? It does not claim to be nearing the AI threshold, it claims that they are approaching 1% of the threshold, which is a far cry from the 'BS' that you portend.
There is a vast distance between 'nearing the AI...' and 'nearing 1% of the AI...'
ashamed of your government? that is a drastic understatement. raise your hand if you ever thought you'd daydream of a world where dan quayle was president.
Just to clarify, in the United States, the Constitution NOWHERE makes claims regarding the presumption of innocence. It is however, presumed as such, due to inferral from 5th, 6th and 14th ammendments, as a result of the 1895 case Coffin vs United States.
http://www.constitution.org/ussc/156-432.htm.
Your perspective is skewed from the blind hatred of large corporations that is harbored by so many readers here.
The costs of building and maintaining an efficient broadband network on a nationwide scale is tremendous. Just how many companies do you think could afford to build a system of that scale? Now, the FCC limits Comcast and ALL other cable providers to a MAXIMUM of 30% market penetration. This means in order to provide the entire country with high-speed cable internet, you would need FOUR financially thriving cable systems. It would make no sense for either Comcast or Cox to compete for the same market, because doing so would just mean that somewhere else in the country, high speed cable service is being denied. The FCC does this because they are offering the telephone companies a means to compete with the cable companies.
Yes the cable industry spends millions and millions of dollars a year lobbying the government. Does that make them evil? Take a look at http://www.csuchico.edu/~kfountain/alpha.htmlthis list of lobbyist organizations and keep telling yourself that lobbyist groups are reserved for evildoers. The fact is that lobbying the government is the most efficient way to get things done. You want marijuana legalized? Start raising funds for a lobbyist organization, such as the ones for tobacco and alcohol, and you will start seeing results when enough billions get pumped into the right pockets.
Comcast is a business, that wants to make money. In Slashdot mythology, that is a defining characteristic of evil, but I would challenge you all to show me a business plan to create a free nationwide network of broadband coverage that offers the technical support and capabilities that Comcast allows. They make money by providing a service, and if it bothers you that the FCC regulates geographical competition among the cable industry, then maybe YOU need to lobby someone to bully the FCC into removing their 'lets give the phone companies a chance' campaign so that the cable companies can have the logistical option of competing without government imposted regulations on the size of growth.
Personally, I think it is about on par with what would the PC market look like if the government sanctioned a 30% marketshare cap on Microsoft. Do you really trust the OSS community to pick up the slack for the rest of the 70% of desktop users out there? Which demographic would MS be forced to focus sales towards? Bah, I may have missed some points, but this is just off the top of my head. If you want to correct me, then by all means I welcome constructive feedback, but if you want to just flame me for having a different perspective, just send me a PM and spare the burden of your hatred upon the servers.
comcast employees receive 2,100$ a year worth of services for free, but its not just
$2000 a year for TV , they are getting television, digital television, premium channels, HDTV packages, high-speed internet, and a full-featured VoIP calling package.
As for what people spend money on, when I worked there I remember a lot of customers who had cable bills approaching a thousand dollars a month.
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ive been using and reading slashdot for quite a few years, i have no clue how moderation works lol - how exactly does one get 'points' to use?
From what I have gathered, google indexes only 13 different file types for SEO purposes, with the XAML of SilverLight not being among those counted. The thinking is that because Microsoft Live Search will obviously index XAML pages that Google will quickly follow suit so as to not lose a competitive edge with the MS search engine.
Yeah, or I could just take my business to NewEgg.com, which has one of the most amazing customer satisfaction ratings in the industry. Oh, did I mention competitive prices, unfathomable quality of customer service and reliability that has spanned the breadth of their online existence? Pfft, The day I started using NewEgg 7 years ago was the day that I lost interest in the computer/electronic superstores of the past.
OK, let's say comcast has 29.9 million subscribers, and they consider attempting to purchase another local cable provider that has a potential reach of .2 million customers. That would put them over the limit, and prevent them from purchasing that provider, leaving them open to bids by giantconglomeratemonopolyprovider #2.
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Switzerland is a direct democracy and if 50,000 citizens sign a referendum, the whole country will have a chance to vote
how can america get one of these?
No, its not. It has nothing to do with a 'hesitation to adapt new technology.' Apple is for snobby elitist hippies and linux is for antisocial OCD nerds. That's the image that their marketing strategies have managed to cultivate. Why use windows? It's cheaper than Apple, gives me more options, and i don't have to manually do everything like I would with linux. I use windows because out of the box I can play games with my friends, I can connect it to my 360, I can use 100% of the software that I WANT to use. If these things are even possible with your alternatives, you have done a pathetic job of making that information available to the non-geek inclined public.
Three days IS long enough to hit the reply button, acknowledge the message and inform them that you are looking at potential options. Even if I typed one key per minute, I could have that message sent in under two hours, leaving me 70 hours to find someone who can type faster and defend me. The guy in question did not even make an attempt to acknowledge Google's efforts to provide him an opportunity to refute the charges. Blaming google for this is just stupid.
The rocks don't move, Chuck Norris kicks the earth and it moves while the rocks stay in place, as the Chuck has commanded.
Why do you have shades on your windows if you've nothing to hide?
Ummm, to keep the glare from the sun off my monitor?
Yes, they legally bought the tickets. They also agreed to abide by the rules and conditions that went along with ownership of that ticket. I realize that most comments here are of the 'how dare anyone try to tell me to abide by rules or agreements' attitude, but that still does not mean that there are some of us who believe that our word and signature should have some value. When I agree to a commitment, then upholding my end of that agreement should be a given.
... well, it sucks.
When the season ticket was purchased, the buyer agreed that the ticket purchased was for their own personal use, or that barring that, they would not attempt to resell that ticket at an unreasonable markup. Many of my friends are die-hard american football fans, but most of us have never been able to afford to actually go to a game. When a $125 dollar ticket is being illegally resold for thousands of dollars, it means that we lose the chance to go enjoy the support that thrives on our passionate allegiance.
I don't have a problem with the guy standing in line for the tickets buying 6 tickets when he only needs 4 and turning around to sell the other 2. My real problem is these companies that have automated the process of going online to purchase all of the valuable or reasonable tickets as soon as they are available. It's just
You really think that the only issue keeping linux in the closet is that nobody knows anything about it? Most people I know have heard of linux, and are terrified about it, because it has a reputation for being a complete maintenance nightmare, impossible to support, and useless in terms of third-party application support. You can argue the validity of these arguments to each other until the RIAA starts saving kittens, but the fact is, the public perception of what linux represents is what keeps users away. Horrible first-time experiences, word of mouth, egotistical users unwilling to compromise for the lesser human denominator.
And this comment will be followed telling me that (X distrobution is so great, I installed it in 3 minutes and it even makes me toast). The last serious experience I had with linux involved downloading 9 different distros and attempting to install them on a dedicated hard drive. Not a single one of them gave me a seamless installation process.
*Why do you have a USB mouse? Installation halted.
*Your sound card does not recognize our native drivers. Go away.
*You need to do such and such to use a PCI-E video card. Yeah, right.
I mean just stupid, mundane things that these operating systems can't even default to something or do on their own. If i'm installing a clean OS, i dont WANT to save piles of driver disks. I dont WANT to remember to unplug my USB 2.0 webcam. Why do you enthusiasts continue populating the internet with comments and posts and threads about replacing windows with linux, and still find it impossible to give me a single distrobution that does what I want.
Install with no more assistance than 'what time zone are you in?' followed by automatically updating ALL of my hardware drivers. Serve this with a nice course of computer gaming options (installing a windows-emulator does not count. look up 'redundant' for that one).
I'd keep typing, but I need a smoke, and realized that whatever rambling point I may have made was done such many extraneous sentence fragments ago. Thanks for giving me something to read.
Just for no reason btw, my online reading pattern is cnn.com->nfl.com->msnbc.com->news.google.com->slashdot.org->tmz.com->back to facebook
ok seriously, who cares about the warranty. the non-functional/recoverable 600 dollar phone is something people DO care about. (yeah i know, warranty good etc - point is, the issue is more about the lack of use of your iphone)
So just because this guy looks at real-world economic implications of a problem instead of jumping on an 'al gore is right!' bandwagon, the comment was modded to 'troll' - that's some kind of wrong there, somehow.
Look at it from another point. While people KNOW about Halo 3, what they are attempting to do is create 'excitement' about the title. This excitement will increase the number of people who rush out to buy the game on the first day of release. Microsoft has 60,827,000,000 shares of stock currently, so a 25 cent per share increase due to an amazing day of sales means an increase in net worth of 60,826,999,975. I'm no financial expert, but a few minutes of stock research via wikipedia and google finance with some trend history from previous halo launches kind of points in that direction. Even if those numbers ARE dramatic, something that triggers a relatively large increase in stock value, even temporary could mean a lot to someone holding on to tons of shares of microsoft that wants to unload afterwards to turn a quick dime.
Interesting statistic - if every chinese citizen spent one minute a day filtering content, that equals 2,515 manpower YEARS a day. Having 1,321,851,888 citizens and 1,185,000,000,000 dollars in cash reserves means they can probably afford to pay one or two people to do the job.
Assuming that your program manages to differentiate itself from the 255 million other software programs that do that exact same thing, the answer to your question is none.
If the piracy community wants your software for free and considers it worth having, then they will have it. You can't do anything about it. Ask Apple or Sony or Microsoft about how much money they spend protecting their software from piracy. Ask the 16 year old kid from New Jersey how many episodes of Pokemon he had to miss to destroy that protection.
Is where I'm going with this making itself clear? You are already jumping into a small pond full of big fish, why waste your energy and resources attempting the impossible? Use an honor system, and hope that enough honest people use your product to justify your expenditures.
lithium has been used as a mood stabilizer for well over a hundred years. and it is given to people to treat the symptoms of bipolar affective disorder, but it is NOT a treatment for the disorder itself. bipolar affective disorder is a multitriggered genetic mutation that is activated during or around puberty if the person with the genetic mutation is experiencing extreme social and/or psychological duress. the combination of pubescent chemical signals with the release of extra serotonins combine to 'activate' the mutation which then manifests in its cyclothermic stage. over the next decade of life, the disorder evolves until it finally resolves into whichever state you will then live with for the duration of your life.
:P) is that the government regularly reallocates financing earmarked for mental health treatment to vote-getting hotspots like aids/cancer research. i believe the NIMH once stated that only 40% of financing intended for treatment and study of mental health does not get reallocated to other medical projects. granted, the only way to cure a disorder of this magnitude would be reverse engineering an RNA retrovirus and introducing it on a global scale preventing it from being passed on to successive generations, but i can't even fantasize any circumstance that would enable feasibility on that.
lithium stabilizes the release of the nervous system's serotonins which acts to prevent the manic episodes from manifesting in their usual extreme states. however, the actual triggering events are heightened stress levels and sudden anxiety attacks. lithium prevents you from straying from your dosed mental state, which means (and im not 100% certain on this) that you also lose the emotional highs and lows that come with a normal life. for some people it's a good trade, for others it can be a torturous existence.
bipolar disorder is used as a pharmaceutical 'catchall' for doctors to solve common mental ailments by doping their patients to the teeth on overpriced medications.
from the research i have read, bipolar affective disorder is an incurable genetic mutation that is prevalent in a vastly higher percentage of people than the numbers of those actually with the disorder. the pharmaceutical industry gets rich beyond belief bankrolling mental illness. i don't have numbers offhand, but i think their profit margins rival the oil industry.
the other problem i have, (and this is SO off-topic, but it IS a reply to another post, so am I off-topic, or is the parent?
note: i'm no medical expert, i never went to medical school - im a 29 year old high school grad who spent 15 years yanking every exposed medical publication's research papers dealing with mental issues and disorders. im bipolar, with a combination of insomnia, mild obsessive compulsive behavior and a very short attention span. this means i have read WAY too much literature on this crap. but i've also been counseling and supporting other people who want to understand the nature of being bipolar.
The White House issued a statement today that we will be proceeding with an investigation in the possibility that Iran is in fact hiding or aiding in the concealment of a vast quantity of NMC's, or Nuts of Mass Consumption. Early reports indicate that the nuts in question were intercepted by the French on their way to a Jericho revival party. This could be the beginning of Nostradomus' famed Peanut Butter Jelly War of the 21st century.
Ok....I'm curious how this was marked informative instead of funny :P Someone came on to slashdot, and stated that as a regular internet user they enjoyed the lack of advertising....As I type this reply, I am looking at an ad for Barracuda spam firewalls (btw, they mention free evaluation units available!)
I demand a modification of the 'informative' status until he presents clear and precise information on how he has managed to avoid being attacked by advertising online! :P
My actual only comment on that post was that he says he has a cable modem but no broadcast stations. I'm pretty sure that they HAVE to have at least given you the 'basic' channels with that (i.e. abc,cbs,nbc) - even if you don't use them, im pretty sure that if you plugged the coax from your modem into a television you'd have basic cable channels :P
but yeah, I don't miss television either. youtube is much better than the funny commercials!
Did you read the article or any of the following comments? How about the synopsis? It does not claim to be nearing the AI threshold, it claims that they are approaching 1% of the threshold, which is a far cry from the 'BS' that you portend.
There is a vast distance between 'nearing the AI...' and 'nearing 1% of the AI...'
ashamed of your government? that is a drastic understatement. raise your hand if you ever thought you'd daydream of a world where dan quayle was president.
Just to clarify, in the United States, the Constitution NOWHERE makes claims regarding the presumption of innocence. It is however, presumed as such, due to inferral from 5th, 6th and 14th ammendments, as a result of the 1895 case Coffin vs United States. http://www.constitution.org/ussc/156-432.htm.
Your perspective is skewed from the blind hatred of large corporations that is harbored by so many readers here.
The costs of building and maintaining an efficient broadband network on a nationwide scale is tremendous. Just how many companies do you think could afford to build a system of that scale? Now, the FCC limits Comcast and ALL other cable providers to a MAXIMUM of 30% market penetration. This means in order to provide the entire country with high-speed cable internet, you would need FOUR financially thriving cable systems. It would make no sense for either Comcast or Cox to compete for the same market, because doing so would just mean that somewhere else in the country, high speed cable service is being denied. The FCC does this because they are offering the telephone companies a means to compete with the cable companies.
Yes the cable industry spends millions and millions of dollars a year lobbying the government. Does that make them evil? Take a look at http://www.csuchico.edu/~kfountain/alpha.htmlthis list of lobbyist organizations and keep telling yourself that lobbyist groups are reserved for evildoers. The fact is that lobbying the government is the most efficient way to get things done. You want marijuana legalized? Start raising funds for a lobbyist organization, such as the ones for tobacco and alcohol, and you will start seeing results when enough billions get pumped into the right pockets.
Comcast is a business, that wants to make money. In Slashdot mythology, that is a defining characteristic of evil, but I would challenge you all to show me a business plan to create a free nationwide network of broadband coverage that offers the technical support and capabilities that Comcast allows. They make money by providing a service, and if it bothers you that the FCC regulates geographical competition among the cable industry, then maybe YOU need to lobby someone to bully the FCC into removing their 'lets give the phone companies a chance' campaign so that the cable companies can have the logistical option of competing without government imposted regulations on the size of growth.
Personally, I think it is about on par with what would the PC market look like if the government sanctioned a 30% marketshare cap on Microsoft. Do you really trust the OSS community to pick up the slack for the rest of the 70% of desktop users out there? Which demographic would MS be forced to focus sales towards? Bah, I may have missed some points, but this is just off the top of my head. If you want to correct me, then by all means I welcome constructive feedback, but if you want to just flame me for having a different perspective, just send me a PM and spare the burden of your hatred upon the servers.