Posts by Caffeine Junkie 10 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2008
The bottome line is do these polititions represent the people who paid for their campaigns or the people who voted for their campaigns?
It's fine taking money from lobbyists if you do believe in their goals, but make it clear to the people who are voting what your agenda is.
They should all have to declare as part of their campaign which "special interests" group contributed to their campaign. Then if people still vote for them it's their own fault.
I'm certainly not going to be storing hundreds of gigabytes of HD camcorder footage in the iCloud. Its bad enough streaming 25Mbps video from the PC upstairs to the TV, god knows what it would be like from the internet.
People can predict the demise of the consumer HDD market as much as they want. I'd put my money on the weather predictions being more accurate than this.
Just fail.
I don't know the merits of the case so I'm not going to say Microsoft should win or lose this case but thats not the point.
The open source community seem to think that the phrase "Open Source" is a sheild making them immune to IP laws. Never mind the fact that TOMTOM inc. make loads of money from selling these devices.
Open source does not absolve people from IP laws and does not give you free reign to steal other peoples ideas.
You guys acting like he was the champion of the system.
Making out he's the hero protecting the computers from the Idiots.
He's an Admin! He greases the wheels and makes sure the system keeps working. Just like the cleaners, and the janitors (except the plumbing is a bit more complicated). These are the systems that enable the real workers to actually do the work.
I'm a developer so I understand the need to overinflate our own importance but in an environment such as the case above the networks are not the reason for the organisations existance. Just a utility.
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