Re: Re: Why MS Won't Retire Browsers -- was: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2 [0T]
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Boyd, Todd M. schreef:
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indeed, developing countries are full of people who don't have access to clean water, as long as we, in the 'first world' continue to support *that* status quo then solar-powered doodah are gimmicks design to make you and me feel better about ourselves.Xandros EEE: don't care what-so-ever, I don't believe the large numbers of linux distro's are at all helpful to the cause and silly little gimmick machine's aimed at Paris-Hilton- wannabe-bloggers don't really interest me.This "gimmick machine" (or at least the technology involved, when applied to other projects) is aimed at being an affordable, solar-rechargeable, decentralized-wireless-network-capable laptop to cost about $200 or less. Its major market target right now is developing countries where information interchange has yet to springboard like it has in "first world" nations. Anyway, I digress...
yes, seriously. the parameters are quite clearly defined. but your average frat-boy is unlikely to see that obviously, it's friends-for-sale and kegparties all round, no time to take his head out of his self-obsessed ass and smell the roses ... make society believe they have freedom when truly they have none, that's large scale social control ... the practice is so well developed that they effectively have the prisoners happily running their own prison. it does help that most people have absolute no desire to be free ... it's much too much like hard work. That's not to say all the variables can be accounted for, so there is always the risk that some kind of revolution occurs within the confines BUT the chances are small that something like facebook will be the hotbed for anything resembling positive change in the world ... more than likely it will serve as nothing more than a mechanism for maintaining the status quo. put it another, simpler, way, if I pumped billions of dollars into something I'd make damn sure it was serving *my* interests and not anyone else's. ... now if only someone would buy into my arsecomic.com concept I too could be 'CEO, bitch' :-DFacebook: principly unsound. a social gimmick devoid of depth and integrity, it's merely a new form of the ago old mechanisms of large scale social control. really not interested in that at all.Uhh. "Large scale social control"? Seriously?
Todd Boyd Web Programmer