From: Adam 

Geo wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:4473f7d1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> Besides all the political talk, what tech stuff is there to talk about?
>

Web stuff?

The network is the computer.

> vista? Oh hey, ok woo woo, I'm all excited about glass and how it integrates
> with MS apps and how it's going to go even further with copy protection,
> drm, and selling out the users.
>

drm is a subject in itself.

DRM is evil. Discuss 


> Linux? It's unix, it's been the same for 30 years.
>

Oh it's rapidly becoming so normal that techies have to find ways to cut
the distro bytes down to as close to 0 as possible so they can can glorify
in consoles & vi .

> OSX, it's unix, it's been the same for 30 years except for the new color
> scheme.
>

& now it's becoming completely closed source it's even less interesting.

> Lets face it, the OS wars are all but over until the public gets so pissed
> at MS for screwing them that they start moving to linux in significant
> numbers. Despite my dissatisfaction with XP, only about 15% have refused to
> upgrade to it.
>

The web is the OS......Google on your phone, pc, fridge etc 


> new and powerful motherboards, possible topic but how many here need more
> power?
>

Tooltime with Tim Taylor comes to mind

> wireless, ok N is on the way, it's fast but I haven't bought yet.
>

I'm at the last lastest (108mbs?) & it's kewl.

> Laptops have been a topic recently
>

laptops are the new PC. The tower/mini tower etc are servers.

> spammers, ok that's been a topic.
>
> P2P, that's been a topic
>
> video/voice over IP has been a topic
>
> umm.. we could talk copyrights.. 
>

Innnnnnn the blue corner weighing in aaaaaaaaatttttt 

Adam

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