You and I have come a long way, buddy

I do not change, for change sake

But I do enjoy trying out new things, and only then, I get to decide whether or not there is a need for me to change

For example, when Facebook first came out, I gave it a try, and decided that it wasn't for me

No matter how much stuffs FB has added since then, I won't force myself to change, just for the sake of changing

What is missing on the above is the willingness to try out the new stuffs

Giving the new stuffs a try out does not mean throwing out the old things altogether - but we need to have the willingness to try out the new stuffs, get a taste of it, and only after that, we can make up our own mind whether or not we need to change

If we do not even try out the new stuffs, how are we to know if the new stuff is better, or worse ?

Yes, we can have the rules changed, but then, they too can change the rules

If we are too force the insurance to accept all people, they can make their insurance policy so expensive that only the rich can afford

After all, who is in business to make a lost ?

Once someone successfully build a computer that can simulate 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion connection all at the same time, someone else will build an even bigger computer that can do 10x as much, and then someone will attempt to up that ... ad nauseum

What will happen then, when the computer we build is 100x or even 1,000,000x more capable than our brain ?

I won't say everybody hates Facebook

I do not hate Facebook, but that does not translate to mean I have to use Facebook

I do not

There's a ghost in my house that makes a lot of noise

And it moves around

Since it's "transparent" I can't "see" it

Now, with this gadget I got to "see" where it's making the noise that it's making

Before the smartphone became the "in-thang" for the ghetto boyz, it was fat gold chains, brand-name sport shoes, and jackets that were the rage

People were robbed and sometimes killed over a pair of shoes back then

I still do not understand why they need to go for the "fist-in-yer-faze" routine when Al Sharpton could have asked Apple Inc to give them ghetto boyz free iPhones

Oh yes, I paid my taxes

The $64 trillion dollar question is --- How much tax should I pay ?

Especially when my tax money is being used for purposes that I find wanting

The question is, how ?

The Apple platform is a closed platform, and they closely guard against any attempt to change their products (even after we have purchased them with our own money)

Until now, there is no way to safeguard our secret stored in i-Device from the prying eyes of Apple Inc

Carnivore may have been around for 15 years, but that does not mean that the act of monitoring per se can be carried out without a proper court warrant --- until now

I have some site running lighttpd, others I run G-Wan

Is G-Wan affected ?

Thanks in advance for any tips that you can share with us.

Thanks again !!

I don't think that they are dumb

Actually, they are smart

1. It ain't their money --- the money is from the gummint

2. By throwing the thing away they save all the effort to reformat the disk and to re-install the Windows OS, plus softwares

3. With the computer dumped, they will get to enjoy newer computers --- again, the money came from the gummint

Marketing does not kill innovation

What really kills innovation is the management's blind push to squeeze the last penny out of existing products

Instead of making improvement, instead of thinking out of the box, instead of innovating --- the bottom-line minded management prefer to "squeez another drop of blood out of what we are producing" instead of pumping money into more R & D, or give the "crazy ideas" a try

English is *NOT* my first language --- and I had 4 "first languages"

And yet, I try my best to write the best English, within my own ability, every single time I write / speak something in English

Why ?

If I am to do something, I want to do it right --- if I were to do something half-ass, I rather not do it at all

That's just me, of course