he was trying to get at finding a way for enabling big corps who are naturally affiliated with "the good ol boys" club that runs the senate, capitol hill and administration to be able to control internet.
and his definition of internet in fact was "something we ol' boys definitely need to put a leash on and control that this freedom of information thing wont go far and hurt our 'business'"
the reason that his actual definition and what he said about the tubes seeming sooo different when you would actually hear them was his motive about "i (actually one of his aides) need to put up a definition that will further our bidding and sufficiently silly that 'stupid' (this is what ol' boys think about ya rednecks out there) people will be fooled by it and side by us".
This has gone WAY too far. This is PLAIN OUT INTIMIDATION AND HARASSMENT. There is nothing legal to this.
These bastards are doing a witch hunt, not unlike in Spanish Inquisition style, defining "names" from COMMONLY USED computer ips. (how does that happen, beats the hell out of me despite having been working in I.T. since 6 years).
Just tell me if is there ANYthing about this different from what Spanish Inquisition did in 15th century ; compile a list of names from your so-called suspects (without any evidence) and then burn them in the stakes.
Justify that "excessive usage of mega-corporate wealth by applying pressure/bribery of elected representatives, putting laws that will benefit precisely and mostly the business type & business size that exactly fits one's own mega corporation, and then hiring lawyer armies to embark on oppressive & barely legal and even at times unconstitutional suppression of ordinary citizens just to be able to continue the unparalleled inequality & injustice between the cuts of oneself (the publisher) and the creator (artist) that is earned through sale & renting of intellectual property" is not a theft.
12 years ago, gaming was about ENTERTAINMENT. every game, be rts or adventure or any other thing, was first built up to ENTERTAIN the player so that they would sell.
later, gaming was industrialized, and big buck shareholder-run boards have decided that surefire/tried formats, clones of earlier successful games with better graphics and sound was a more surefire way to make more cash.
then gaming took a loooooong slumber. every game out, was repetition of some earlier game, only with better graphics.
ive been playing games since i was 7 at 1982. i am a hardcore gamer. my pastime is gaming. i have seen it all. i got FED up, grew WEARY of more graphics, less entertainment.
it was inevitable that someone would see it, and go back to basics. nintendo did.
and lo, this is the result. i have never played a console, im a hardcore pcer, but im thinking of acquiring a wii sometime.
so quit crapping around and make due pressure for shitty telco companies to actually INVEST the unearned money they have got from OVERSELLING connectivity subscriptions.
by joining or jumping in every crappy debate they are funding, like this "edisowhatcamacallitnet" & "2nd internet" "othermorecrapolanet" debate, you are, without knowing, supporting their attempts to get out of their predicament without paying for it themselves.
Do we have to provide "incentive" for those shitheads to actually PROVIDE what they were selling to us for the past 10 years in the first place ?
They have oversold THEIR bandwidth, and now they have to pay from their OWN pockets to meet what they promised. Thats whats there is to it. Neither state nor public can be coerced to patch up what they messed up.
"We were trying to do spying through government agencies, but it seems that due to public pressure we will have to eventually let go of it. So, we put out this act to allow private companies to spy on people, so we will be able to continue spying through private companies that are affiliated with us. And as its private and everyone can do this, noone can object"
And some socialist had put Reichstag on fire back in 1933.
dont make believe. it is the mechanism that allows democracies to go down the drain.
if there is something fishy about something, then there IS something fishy there. and there are nothing non-fishy about last 2 elections republicans - excuse me, not republicans, but bush republicans - won. they are totally 'fishful'.
see, you cant cram in crapload of control mechanisms (DRM and other shit) that can affect operation of entire computer (and permission wise, at even hardware level too !) and then expect it to be only as vulnerable as previous oses (or any os, in fact) that did not contain that much shit in them.
malware producers, virus makers are going to exploit the hell out of the mechanisms microsoft put in vista.
Some people are saying that people said the same things when previous windows versions came up, and they had always been a success later.
this is not the case. things are different this time.
earlier, despite tech savvy people did not like an incompetent windows version when it came out, and shunned, less tech savvy people, hype people, ignorant people were jumping on it, buying them and creating the market and getting on the hype.
truth be told, previous versions of windows were all milestones that were done to adapt to some major hardware/technology changes in the it world - 3.1 brought the graphical ui to mainstream in PC market, 95 brought automation, integrated os/services and user friendliness to the desktop scene, xp brought a much needed thing, a stable, reliable version of windows to the desktop. i am not counting in me, as it was a marketing trick to sell more stuff and also an intermediary makeshift solution to crashy 95 to hold the market in the while more stable versions were developed. im not counting in nt and 2000 either, because they did not go mainstream to the average joe market, and even 2000 was pushed a little, it did not catch up.
and now we have vista. there is NO new thing vista is bringing, there is NO major need that vista is meeting with current technology. it absolutely brings nothing except DRM. and noone was in need of DRM, because it is not a basic necessity of world of information technology/processing. i dont need to say that DRM is not needed in any average joe's home either.
so now we are seeing that even average joe is not jumping in the bandwagon of vista, heck, because they are just HAPPY with what they have now, XP.
hell, im no average joe, i like open source, i work on lamp platform, i dont like microsoft and its evil ways, but, hey, im happy with XP as it is too !
it just works. not gives me any reboots, lockups or hassles like 95 or me had given, or is problematic while installing stuff or trying to make things work like 95, me or nt or 2000 either. it works well.
it scales quite well with hardware too - right now there are 2 different image editors with heckload of memory consuming image data on them - one is Jasc paint shop pro, other is adobe photoshop -, firefox with 6 different sites open in 6 different tabs, i can see a googletalk window open, thunderbird mail client open with thousands of emails in databases going back to 1.5 years in dates, an animation shop applet that is a side feature of jasc paint shop pro, icq, skype, ms messenger, and us robotics skype phone hardware's tray icon loaded.
i can confidently open up Zend IDE, which uses java like hell, to code with php at the same time - oh wait - i just noticed at the same time i was running a Yellow Tip web server, which runs an integrated webserver through xp versions of apache 2+, php 4+, mysql 4+, for local lamp development in the background. also noticed that i have kaspersky anti virus monitor monitoring the hell outta whatever happens in the computer in the task manager there. also can notice ati's drivers to work with sapphire 256 meg radeon pro 1600 card.
and this is with amd 3000, 1 gig ddr 400 ram, 2x serial ata seagate barracuda 80 gigs, and gigabyte mainboard - heck, now talking about it i havent been listening to mp3s in the last 1.5 or so hours since i watched an episode of scrubs locally on winamp - i should launch my winamp to play some 60es songs ( i have been taken quite a liking for them lately) through my sb live xtreme music card, which sounds like hell with my altec lansing fx 6021 speaker set.
Oh, i forgot, i am able to right away jump in and play Star Wars Republic Commando while all this shit waits in the background, with full details on.
ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
see where i am getting at ?
This thing, WORKS. I dont need to go buy Vista for anything.
this is the reason vista sales are, not, and dell is offering xp with new pcs, and more to follow.
go dig some history. its the same overly-centralist, pressurized one-cut culture since the time of chi. that makes 2500 years. if you go 500 more, you will see that every petty king was ruling their territories the same.
i didnt see it that way. or i dont remember him going to vapour.
but this proves my point - yoda and obi wan are the 2 persons who are contacted by qui gon jinn, just as obi wan solved the mysteries of what qui gonn discovered while in exile in tatooine, yoda did the same thing in dagobah.
While we Europeans and decedents in the US were running around with stone knifes and bear skins, those people had a civilization.
and now they have a repressive regime that stamps on anything that flowers within their people's minds.
oh but thats allright !!! - they had a civilization when others had not, we can let the fact that current geezers running the country stamping on youth there. it is totally acceptable.
if you know a LITTLE bit of history, and the "civilization" you are talking about, youd know that chinese are being MADE live approximately in the SAME condition that they were being made to live in 3000 years ago. only change there is now, more technology. Otherwise everything's the same.
yea. maybe that guy is a moron. maybe just an idiot. either is possible, also a multitude of different possibilities are valid too.
i believe what he is saying is that obi wan might have not been "killed", his particular fashion of "dying" repeats for noone in entire 6 episodes, for no jedi or alien.
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he was trying to get at finding a way for enabling big corps who are naturally affiliated with "the good ol boys" club that runs the senate, capitol hill and administration to be able to control internet.
and his definition of internet in fact was "something we ol' boys definitely need to put a leash on and control that this freedom of information thing wont go far and hurt our 'business'"
the reason that his actual definition and what he said about the tubes seeming sooo different when you would actually hear them was his motive about "i (actually one of his aides) need to put up a definition that will further our bidding and sufficiently silly that 'stupid' (this is what ol' boys think about ya rednecks out there) people will be fooled by it and side by us".
this is what it was all about.
Galaxies ?
boy, if its going to be anything about it - and as this is sony, i bet it will be - i feel sorry for anyone who gets used to that video service.
this RIAA shit.
This has gone WAY too far. This is PLAIN OUT INTIMIDATION AND HARASSMENT. There is nothing legal to this.
These bastards are doing a witch hunt, not unlike in Spanish Inquisition style, defining "names" from COMMONLY USED computer ips. (how does that happen, beats the hell out of me despite having been working in I.T. since 6 years).
Just tell me if is there ANYthing about this different from what Spanish Inquisition did in 15th century ; compile a list of names from your so-called suspects (without any evidence) and then burn them in the stakes.
you bastard
i wasnt expecting a piece like that
End users who might choose a dsl line are less likely to utilize their full bandwidth.
on the other hand, anyone going for a T1 is sure to be in the deal for bandwidth.
hence, providers are grossly overselling dsl and like types of access, but selling T1 and similar services from their real rates.
i know sony very well from star wars galaxies.
i cant - this might mean that the battle for internet freedom might be lost ?
maybe not.
its in your hands now.
Justify that "excessive usage of mega-corporate wealth by applying pressure/bribery of elected representatives, putting laws that will benefit precisely and mostly the business type & business size that exactly fits one's own mega corporation, and then hiring lawyer armies to embark on oppressive & barely legal and even at times unconstitutional suppression of ordinary citizens just to be able to continue the unparalleled inequality & injustice between the cuts of oneself (the publisher) and the creator (artist) that is earned through sale & renting of intellectual property" is not a theft.
and then ill line behind you.
12 years ago, gaming was about ENTERTAINMENT. every game, be rts or adventure or any other thing, was first built up to ENTERTAIN the player so that they would sell.
later, gaming was industrialized, and big buck shareholder-run boards have decided that surefire/tried formats, clones of earlier successful games with better graphics and sound was a more surefire way to make more cash.
then gaming took a loooooong slumber. every game out, was repetition of some earlier game, only with better graphics.
ive been playing games since i was 7 at 1982. i am a hardcore gamer. my pastime is gaming. i have seen it all. i got FED up, grew WEARY of more graphics, less entertainment.
it was inevitable that someone would see it, and go back to basics. nintendo did.
and lo, this is the result. i have never played a console, im a hardcore pcer, but im thinking of acquiring a wii sometime.
thats a very handsome bloke you got there. huge head size.
.. NOT.
there is one 'net'. and it is the INTERNET.
so quit crapping around and make due pressure for shitty telco companies to actually INVEST the unearned money they have got from OVERSELLING connectivity subscriptions.
by joining or jumping in every crappy debate they are funding, like this "edisowhatcamacallitnet" & "2nd internet" "othermorecrapolanet" debate, you are, without knowing, supporting their attempts to get out of their predicament without paying for it themselves.
what the hell are you just talking about ?
WHAT incentive ?
Do we have to provide "incentive" for those shitheads to actually PROVIDE what they were selling to us for the past 10 years in the first place ?
They have oversold THEIR bandwidth, and now they have to pay from their OWN pockets to meet what they promised. Thats whats there is to it. Neither state nor public can be coerced to patch up what they messed up.
Administration says this :
"We were trying to do spying through government agencies, but it seems that due to public pressure we will have to eventually let go of it. So, we put out this act to allow private companies to spy on people, so we will be able to continue spying through private companies that are affiliated with us. And as its private and everyone can do this, noone can object"
And some socialist had put Reichstag on fire back in 1933.
dont make believe. it is the mechanism that allows democracies to go down the drain.
if there is something fishy about something, then there IS something fishy there. and there are nothing non-fishy about last 2 elections republicans - excuse me, not republicans, but bush republicans - won. they are totally 'fishful'.
is there ANY scientific evidence that they did ?
and the democrat statistician used what ? reports from organizations, county offices that were handled by republicans ?
Rather make it "look forward to".
see, you cant cram in crapload of control mechanisms (DRM and other shit) that can affect operation of entire computer (and permission wise, at even hardware level too !) and then expect it to be only as vulnerable as previous oses (or any os, in fact) that did not contain that much shit in them.
malware producers, virus makers are going to exploit the hell out of the mechanisms microsoft put in vista.
maybe its because im stupid. or maybe because what you did was uncommon.
Some people are saying that people said the same things when previous windows versions came up, and they had always been a success later.
this is not the case. things are different this time.
earlier, despite tech savvy people did not like an incompetent windows version when it came out, and shunned, less tech savvy people, hype people, ignorant people were jumping on it, buying them and creating the market and getting on the hype.
truth be told, previous versions of windows were all milestones that were done to adapt to some major hardware/technology changes in the it world - 3.1 brought the graphical ui to mainstream in PC market, 95 brought automation, integrated os/services and user friendliness to the desktop scene, xp brought a much needed thing, a stable, reliable version of windows to the desktop. i am not counting in me, as it was a marketing trick to sell more stuff and also an intermediary makeshift solution to crashy 95 to hold the market in the while more stable versions were developed. im not counting in nt and 2000 either, because they did not go mainstream to the average joe market, and even 2000 was pushed a little, it did not catch up.
and now we have vista. there is NO new thing vista is bringing, there is NO major need that vista is meeting with current technology. it absolutely brings nothing except DRM. and noone was in need of DRM, because it is not a basic necessity of world of information technology/processing. i dont need to say that DRM is not needed in any average joe's home either.
so now we are seeing that even average joe is not jumping in the bandwagon of vista, heck, because they are just HAPPY with what they have now, XP.
hell, im no average joe, i like open source, i work on lamp platform, i dont like microsoft and its evil ways, but, hey, im happy with XP as it is too !
it just works. not gives me any reboots, lockups or hassles like 95 or me had given, or is problematic while installing stuff or trying to make things work like 95, me or nt or 2000 either. it works well.
it scales quite well with hardware too - right now there are 2 different image editors with heckload of memory consuming image data on them - one is Jasc paint shop pro, other is adobe photoshop -, firefox with 6 different sites open in 6 different tabs, i can see a googletalk window open, thunderbird mail client open with thousands of emails in databases going back to 1.5 years in dates, an animation shop applet that is a side feature of jasc paint shop pro, icq, skype, ms messenger, and us robotics skype phone hardware's tray icon loaded.
i can confidently open up Zend IDE, which uses java like hell, to code with php at the same time - oh wait - i just noticed at the same time i was running a Yellow Tip web server, which runs an integrated webserver through xp versions of apache 2+, php 4+, mysql 4+, for local lamp development in the background. also noticed that i have kaspersky anti virus monitor monitoring the hell outta whatever happens in the computer in the task manager there. also can notice ati's drivers to work with sapphire 256 meg radeon pro 1600 card.
and this is with amd 3000, 1 gig ddr 400 ram, 2x serial ata seagate barracuda 80 gigs, and gigabyte mainboard - heck, now talking about it i havent been listening to mp3s in the last 1.5 or so hours since i watched an episode of scrubs locally on winamp - i should launch my winamp to play some 60es songs ( i have been taken quite a liking for them lately) through my sb live xtreme music card, which sounds like hell with my altec lansing fx 6021 speaker set.
Oh, i forgot, i am able to right away jump in and play Star Wars Republic Commando while all this shit waits in the background, with full details on.
ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
see where i am getting at ?
This thing, WORKS. I dont need to go buy Vista for anything.
this is the reason vista sales are, not, and dell is offering xp with new pcs, and more to follow.
go dig some history. its the same overly-centralist, pressurized one-cut culture since the time of chi. that makes 2500 years. if you go 500 more, you will see that every petty king was ruling their territories the same.
i didnt see it that way. or i dont remember him going to vapour.
but this proves my point - yoda and obi wan are the 2 persons who are contacted by qui gon jinn, just as obi wan solved the mysteries of what qui gonn discovered while in exile in tatooine, yoda did the same thing in dagobah.
and now they have a repressive regime that stamps on anything that flowers within their people's minds.
oh but thats allright !!! - they had a civilization when others had not, we can let the fact that current geezers running the country stamping on youth there. it is totally acceptable.
if you know a LITTLE bit of history, and the "civilization" you are talking about, youd know that chinese are being MADE live approximately in the SAME condition that they were being made to live in 3000 years ago. only change there is now, more technology. Otherwise everything's the same.
what era do children grow up, matters much.
these were the ones who grew up in ww2 and start of the cold war. the furthest extent their vision can go has been long walked past by.
yea. maybe that guy is a moron. maybe just an idiot. either is possible, also a multitude of different possibilities are valid too.
i believe what he is saying is that obi wan might have not been "killed", his particular fashion of "dying" repeats for noone in entire 6 episodes, for no jedi or alien.
Same kind of people everywhere. Bunch of retarded morons that are relics of cold war age, struggling to FORCE the youth to live like they did.
They need to die off fast so that the new ages can have a good chance.