I am not surprised by this really. Since McCain has voted for Bush's policies over 90% of the time, and vows to continue them the only real answer is he really is divorced from reality.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/obama-camp-lets-rip-on-mc_n_125955.html (excerpt) The Obama campaign is jumping all over a line from John McCain, in which the Arizona Republican suggested that time in Washington had made it easier from him to be out of touch with everyday concerns. "I think John McCain is right about John McCain," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a fellow Chicagoan known for his brass-knuckled politics. "He has been there so long that is why he has voted 90 percent of the time with George Bush and that why his staff is bogged down by lobbyists that represent special interests." McCain's alleged gaffe came Thursday night at Columbia University during a service forum featuring both candidates. "It's easy for me to go to Washington," said the Senator, "and frankly, be somewhat divorced from tith a PC... > > M$ structure the market in such a way that retailers et al don't have any > choice in the matter, it's not so much 'nice incentives' as 'take the hint > it's good for you either that or we'll burn you' > > nonetheless people still buy the PCs. but that's not the point, the point > is that the concept of choice has been completely warped to the extent that > people generally believe that being offered 400 different cartons of milk > equates to freedom ... it's a marketing trick of the highest order ... > niether freedom nor choice come into it. > > applying such convoluted concepts to linux is actually counter-productive, > the only real beneficiaries to the linux distro holy-wars are the boys at > M$. would be interesting to know how much money M$ pump into various > distros to keep them finghting amongst themselves, I'm guessing that the > figure is above zero. M$ fuelling Novell (which owns Suse) and Miguel De Icaza (which leads Gnome and Mono). Forget novell and suse. Later or sooner they will going down. Nobody like who bed with M$. And Miguel which was the real problem. Having tons of distros is not real problem and having two major desktop enviroment splits your very limited programmer resources to two. This is real problem. Current lead distro was Ubuntu, and Ubuntu split his resources in two (or tree) to support different desktop enviroments. > > It sounds a bit like when Microsoft announced how many people were > > downloading the IE7 browser, when in actual fact it had been forcing it > > on users with the automatic system updates, and was still counting those > > as user requested downloads! > > it's statistically proven that you can prove anything with statistics. And every bit era change there was chance to change customer habbits. Microsoft owns the 16 and 32 bit because there whrere no real alternative. But now era changes from 32 to 64 bit and Microsoft fails first attempt to deliver 64 bit os. Vista was failure. If jobs makes os.x available for pc's or Linux find the real solutution for multimedia codecs and DRM solutions. Somebody may change M$ desktop hegomony. Other wise, we still arguing M$ browsers compatibilty at 2020 or whatever. Regards Sancar "Delifisek" Saran, 12 years of hard core GNU/Linux Zealot from Turkey. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
