The more I read about this it seems that MA is more concerned about MS's propiretary schemas and patents that could affect the legal distribution and use of the states documents. The potential effects would be massive. State, county, local governments, schools and agencies, as well as private sector business's would have signifiacant concerns about the digital distribution and use of state documents, allowing the only workaround to be printing the material.
In many ways I am surprised how long it has taken for end users to get to this point, but it is inevitable. As consumers, the everyday end users become more sofisticated in their computer knowledge, they realize that Microsoft is denying them their Digital Rights to create an use files anywhere, any time, and on any platform. Adobe realized this years ago. Users will happily pay lots of money for high quality, easy to use powerful tools, especially when they have choices. Microsoft is the anti-thesis of choice, and consumers are becoming more inclined to not choose Microsofts expensive proprietary garbage that infringes on the end users Digital Rights.
I would think a truly independant study would look at all the time required by end users to maintain their NTFS or FAT32 file systems, cache cleaning and defragging, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware updating and scanning, not to mention answering all those annoying and prolific dialogs that constantly get in your face, that consume otherwise productive time. Then there are all those oddities that Windows is so well known for.... How do Windows users get anything done? I guess these are not cost factors if you are only playing with your computer. What about down time when 3 workstations out of 10 suddenly got porn popups? Oh yeah, that isn't an OS problem, is it.
It will be such a shame to give up watching super compressed ripped video with 2 channel stereo sound, and be forced into paying for a full home theater expierience. Of course Hollywood would never get any cash from me for so many of the movies available anyway. There are quite a few films that do poorly at the box office, but are popular as rentals and downloads. Maybe if Hollywood looked at the download stats along with rental figures, they might find they could generate interest in moving some product sooner onto commercial cable TV. I would enjoy watching something like "With Out a Paddle" with commercial interuptions, rather than paying cash to rent or buy it. Hollywood needs to broaden their customer based rather than push customers away.
The only piracy that really hurts the movie and music industries is what comes from industry grade copying and packaging. Internet downloading and P2P don't really hurt. The quality is not truly there. Those who really want a copy will buy the retail or "legitimate" downloads. The recording industry has been advancing these arguments since the days of wire recording (cassette tapes were the devils own in their day). New tecnologies, new terminology in the rethoric. A great many artists know that people "sharing" creates greater exposure and ultimately promotes sales of the full featured top quality product. The movie industry has recognized this by putting so much into creating all the extras on DVD's. Mr. Freeman is a brilliant man, and further shows his love of craft and business accumin with his statements.
A well known issue for many years that was not truly a looming disaster until the media hyped the story, Congress created commissions, and "Hollywood" made movies. A whole lot of money was spent averting a disaster that never was. The real disaster is that the movies were not very good.
The average Windows user will feel that MS is sooo wonderful for securing their computers against the wild and wooly internet. As the Windows machines again slow down and bcome even more clunky, the solution will be to buy a newer computer, and sales people will show the buyers how economical the new PC's are compared to those sooo expensive Mac's. Doesn't sound much different than the past 20 years, and people still put up with it.
I find Yoper to be a great step in the advancement of Linux. Yoper, Linspire, Mandrake, and others I'm sure are marketing Linux distros that are easy for Windows users to install, use, and upgrade. Andreas has done an outstanding job and should be applauded. I have been very pleased that my wife and some friends are now happily using Yoper and are now free of the horrible frustrations that are Windows. Linux is about choice, and having fine choices such as Yoper for average home computer users should be supported and promoted. While I would prefer that my friends an family were all using Macintosh, I would never advocate they use my favorite PC OS, Slackware. With so many more people using Firefox instead of IE, there is a growing need for consumer level Linux distros. So far Yoper seems to me is one of the best.
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The more I read about this it seems that MA is more concerned about MS's propiretary schemas and patents that could affect the legal distribution and use of the states documents. The potential effects would be massive. State, county, local governments, schools and agencies, as well as private sector business's would have signifiacant concerns about the digital distribution and use of state documents, allowing the only workaround to be printing the material.
In many ways I am surprised how long it has taken for end users to get to this point, but it is inevitable. As consumers, the everyday end users become more sofisticated in their computer knowledge, they realize that Microsoft is denying them their Digital Rights to create an use files anywhere, any time, and on any platform. Adobe realized this years ago. Users will happily pay lots of money for high quality, easy to use powerful tools, especially when they have choices. Microsoft is the anti-thesis of choice, and consumers are becoming more inclined to not choose Microsofts expensive proprietary garbage that infringes on the end users Digital Rights.
It might be cheaper to move everyone out, and turn New Orleans into rice and catfish farms.
I would think a truly independant study would look at all the time required by end users to maintain their NTFS or FAT32 file systems, cache cleaning and defragging, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware updating and scanning, not to mention answering all those annoying and prolific dialogs that constantly get in your face, that consume otherwise productive time. Then there are all those oddities that Windows is so well known for.... How do Windows users get anything done? I guess these are not cost factors if you are only playing with your computer. What about down time when 3 workstations out of 10 suddenly got porn popups? Oh yeah, that isn't an OS problem, is it.
It will be such a shame to give up watching super compressed ripped video with 2 channel stereo sound, and be forced into paying for a full home theater expierience. Of course Hollywood would never get any cash from me for so many of the movies available anyway. There are quite a few films that do poorly at the box office, but are popular as rentals and downloads. Maybe if Hollywood looked at the download stats along with rental figures, they might find they could generate interest in moving some product sooner onto commercial cable TV. I would enjoy watching something like "With Out a Paddle" with commercial interuptions, rather than paying cash to rent or buy it. Hollywood needs to broaden their customer based rather than push customers away.
The only piracy that really hurts the movie and music industries is what comes from industry grade copying and packaging. Internet downloading and P2P don't really hurt. The quality is not truly there. Those who really want a copy will buy the retail or "legitimate" downloads. The recording industry has been advancing these arguments since the days of wire recording (cassette tapes were the devils own in their day). New tecnologies, new terminology in the rethoric. A great many artists know that people "sharing" creates greater exposure and ultimately promotes sales of the full featured top quality product. The movie industry has recognized this by putting so much into creating all the extras on DVD's. Mr. Freeman is a brilliant man, and further shows his love of craft and business accumin with his statements.
A well known issue for many years that was not truly a looming disaster until the media hyped the story, Congress created commissions, and "Hollywood" made movies. A whole lot of money was spent averting a disaster that never was. The real disaster is that the movies were not very good.
The average Windows user will feel that MS is sooo wonderful for securing their computers against the wild and wooly internet. As the Windows machines again slow down and bcome even more clunky, the solution will be to buy a newer computer, and sales people will show the buyers how economical the new PC's are compared to those sooo expensive Mac's. Doesn't sound much different than the past 20 years, and people still put up with it.
I find Yoper to be a great step in the advancement of Linux. Yoper, Linspire, Mandrake, and others I'm sure are marketing Linux distros that are easy for Windows users to install, use, and upgrade. Andreas has done an outstanding job and should be applauded. I have been very pleased that my wife and some friends are now happily using Yoper and are now free of the horrible frustrations that are Windows. Linux is about choice, and having fine choices such as Yoper for average home computer users should be supported and promoted. While I would prefer that my friends an family were all using Macintosh, I would never advocate they use my favorite PC OS, Slackware. With so many more people using Firefox instead of IE, there is a growing need for consumer level Linux distros. So far Yoper seems to me is one of the best.
The movie has spawned a new cover for the book!