Well, car thefts are quite frequent in some Brazilian cities, so it's not surprise that most people won't see anything wrong on that apart from paying 5 bucks for the thing themselves. Some people will even see this as a good thing; well, it's an extremely cheap car tracking service!
There were really few contrary opinions to the resolution. Mr. Raul Jungmann, national representative, filed a request for its suspension, alluding to privacy concerns, but no final solution was given to the matter since 2007. It had no big repercussion on media, too. That's how things work in Brazil: these stuff get approved with enough antecedence, but become news just over the deadline. I can't say if it's intentional, but it really seems so.
Brazil has a very protectionist economy. In the last 20 years (roughly), for every multinational enterprise that manifests some interest in settling on the country, lengthy rounds of negotiation are taken, mostly for discussing tax incentives.
I understand your point of view, but I really meant to focus on the position-guessing mechanism. It brings some problems, such as low "batching power" and great reliance on the widgets positioning.
IMHO, GUIs lack of conciseness, because of the big screen area demanded to properly represent all the necessary interaction elements, and consistency, since actions taken by the user (that unconciously performs bidimensional pattern recognition at each interaction) are not easily reproducible by a machine. It would demand that all windows are the same size, and positioned at the same place, they were when the user interacted first.
Obviously we could compare that with a CLI, that demands a proper construction of a syntactically correct commands. Though it is true, commands and settings can be properly stored (in a history file or a shell script) for future execution.
It is important to remember that CLIs were the oldest way to interact with a computer system of both. It was made by programmers, to programmers. But, still today, they prefer to have a concise and consistent way of accomplishing their tasks. Guessing positions in an Euclidean plane based on less-than-descriptive tips contained on pictograms and labels isn't something we can call "concise" and "consistent".
It is just an example, and it has more to do with the drawbacks of running virtual machines as a replacement to native systems (as pointed by adonoman) than with SUA itself. I knew since the beginning it was a terrible example, though, but I wasn't able to think anything better.
The problem is that VMs consequently bring an isolation level that doesn't allow you, for example, to work at the native filesystem. You cannot easily grep something in your "My Documents" folder, as far as I know and, even if you can, you'll be consuming way more resources than needed, which may bring consequences as bigger execution times. They're a great solution for a lot of problems, though, don't get me wrong.
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Oh, of course they can't do that in any way! It would be a crime!
Well, car thefts are quite frequent in some Brazilian cities, so it's not surprise that most people won't see anything wrong on that apart from paying 5 bucks for the thing themselves. Some people will even see this as a good thing; well, it's an extremely cheap car tracking service!
There were really few contrary opinions to the resolution. Mr. Raul Jungmann, national representative, filed a request for its suspension, alluding to privacy concerns, but no final solution was given to the matter since 2007. It had no big repercussion on media, too. That's how things work in Brazil: these stuff get approved with enough antecedence, but become news just over the deadline. I can't say if it's intentional, but it really seems so.
Brazil has a very protectionist economy. In the last 20 years (roughly), for every multinational enterprise that manifests some interest in settling on the country, lengthy rounds of negotiation are taken, mostly for discussing tax incentives.
I understand your point of view, but I really meant to focus on the position-guessing mechanism. It brings some problems, such as low "batching power" and great reliance on the widgets positioning.
IMHO, GUIs lack of conciseness, because of the big screen area demanded to properly represent all the necessary interaction elements, and consistency, since actions taken by the user (that unconciously performs bidimensional pattern recognition at each interaction) are not easily reproducible by a machine. It would demand that all windows are the same size, and positioned at the same place, they were when the user interacted first.
Obviously we could compare that with a CLI, that demands a proper construction of a syntactically correct commands. Though it is true, commands and settings can be properly stored (in a history file or a shell script) for future execution.
It is important to remember that CLIs were the oldest way to interact with a computer system of both. It was made by programmers, to programmers. But, still today, they prefer to have a concise and consistent way of accomplishing their tasks. Guessing positions in an Euclidean plane based on less-than-descriptive tips contained on pictograms and labels isn't something we can call "concise" and "consistent".
It is just an example, and it has more to do with the drawbacks of running virtual machines as a replacement to native systems (as pointed by adonoman) than with SUA itself. I knew since the beginning it was a terrible example, though, but I wasn't able to think anything better.
The problem is that VMs consequently bring an isolation level that doesn't allow you, for example, to work at the native filesystem. You cannot easily grep something in your "My Documents" folder, as far as I know and, even if you can, you'll be consuming way more resources than needed, which may bring consequences as bigger execution times. They're a great solution for a lot of problems, though, don't get me wrong.
I think he intended to be funny, but I'm not really sure.