The little buggers have to know about things like the constitution, their personal rights, and voting in order to operate in a Semi-Democratic Republic.
more likely the production company hired to make the commercial had an old Macbook for a prop and thought it looked better than any other notebook they had.
This time I think it is to get away from "Vista is a clunker."
Vista has gotten such bad press that they are releasing it under a different name building hype so people will judge the next version as a separate entity from Vista. Dang it all if I bet it'll work.
What percentage of the population was using computers back in the 80s compared to Today?
Now look at what percentage of the population is willing to work with a terminal that looks scary to them(and it does...you know this is what Market research would tell you...).
See any coincidences?
In order to become a main stream OS Ubuntu has to work towards the main stream of users. That doesn't mean dumbing down but making the programs AND the design(interface, gui, etc.) smart enough to handle all comers from the power user to the frightened by technology middle manager, grandparent or even everyday office employee.
After using MS for so long I'd be frightened by technology too.
Much of market research(or at least as I know it I am NOT a professional in this area) seems to have an element of working with other people directly and facilitating communication between them. In the latter respect the posting to FTP format is incredibly bad and fails miserably.
In a simpler set of words: It sounds like your trying to tell a chef that he's just as well off cooking over a campfire than in the kitchen.
FOSS, and "volunteer" software doesn't need market research you say?
Bull! Such research tells people what is lacking in a product from a wider perspective than just the developers'. Linux has come along way especially under Ubuntu; possibly even surpassing MS's Vista(ok to be honest delete the possibly) however there are still a few things that probably could be fixed.
Just because Ubuntu/Linux is better overall does not need it is better in all areas, and some of those areas may just be were the wider market decides to measure which OS is better. Market research figures out where those areas are.
Not saying all development should be driven purely by the market research, but neither should all development be driven by the developers, or the current set of users for that matter.
You know it is often important to hide data that isn't involved with anything illegal. For example: Credit Card numbers, social security numbers and other personal information, trade secrets, personal journals and diaries that you don't want other people reading. There are many MANY reasons to want to wipe data that doesn't implicate you in a crime.
So the short stories I write and post to the internet are pirated?
What about the digital photographs I take?
What about the drawings I make?...they suck but that's another matter...
Though for the growing bulk, perhaps even majority of useful data you are right that if posted w/o consent of the copyright owner it is "pirated" or put correctly(piracy is a maritime law only!) intellectual property infringement.
As this bulk grows it means that there are more and more creations that can be considered similar to material that is part of someone's intellectual property. In order to relate to other people you have to relate to their experiences and many of those involve IP such as theme parks, brand name items, cartoons etc.
This means that gradually companies owning what amounts to non-expiring IP are taking ownership of society for their own non-personal(corps are not people) gains.
Any Intellectual Property(copyright, patent, trademark etc.) without a reasonably short expiration date is grossly unjust.
Every piece of IP should have an expiration date for when it will enter public domain and once set that date should NOT change even if new laws are passed. Renewable IP dates may be just provided that the renewal process allows for a certain end time for the property holder's rights and the longer the ownership the harder the renewal should be to prove(not to pay for).
Thankfully Obama has appointed an FCC head who knows what Net Neutrality is.
Unfortunately even with him in office I think the day is coming when the Internet is as free and open to free speech as any major Radio or Television broadcast.
It is free speech...as long as you never say anything illegal or offensive or that challenges those that set what "illegal or offensive" means.
4. Find out that the phisers are using a proxy to bounce off of. 5. Find that proxy is some poor schmuck who got hacked. 6. Realize poor schmuck is you. 7. Boom.
Problem is with no-script you still have to decide if you trust or not-trust the site and if that level of trust you have is worth what the site is offering.
If the site offers a useful service which requires scripts you have to decide if it is worth the risk.
While in most cases it is easy to tell and block only those sites you trust. Those that you don't block may also allow third party scripts to be run such as in ads on the site.
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Yes.
Most people will. Microsoft is a big and well trusted company to most people.
Yeah but the problem is that in a court of law it WILL be taken as fair consent to update 3rd party stuff.
MS has enough $$$ and IS the computer industry to most folks.
Wow I didn't know IP laws could get up and work in a lab much less do genetic/biologic engineering.
Schools have to teach some laws.
The little buggers have to know about things like the constitution, their personal rights, and voting in order to operate in a Semi-Democratic Republic.
That isn't being taught to well now.
Except IP education is subsidized by the RIAA.
Seriously why isn't this in the article summery?
It would take less than a sentence. Can the mods please wake up and at least require a bare minimum standard?
more likely the production company hired to make the commercial had an old Macbook for a prop and thought it looked better than any other notebook they had.
No golden plates and seer stones are the way to go.
This time I think it is to get away from "Vista is a clunker."
Vista has gotten such bad press that they are releasing it under a different name building hype so people will judge the next version as a separate entity from Vista. Dang it all if I bet it'll work.
What percentage of the population was using computers back in the 80s compared to Today?
Now look at what percentage of the population is willing to work with a terminal that looks scary to them(and it does...you know this is what Market research would tell you...).
See any coincidences?
In order to become a main stream OS Ubuntu has to work towards the main stream of users. That doesn't mean dumbing down but making the programs AND the design(interface, gui, etc.) smart enough to handle all comers from the power user to the frightened by technology middle manager, grandparent or even everyday office employee.
After using MS for so long I'd be frightened by technology too.
Problem:
Much of market research(or at least as I know it I am NOT a professional in this area) seems to have an element of working with other people directly and facilitating communication between them. In the latter respect the posting to FTP format is incredibly bad and fails miserably.
In a simpler set of words:
It sounds like your trying to tell a chef that he's just as well off cooking over a campfire than in the kitchen.
FOSS, and "volunteer" software doesn't need market research you say?
Bull! Such research tells people what is lacking in a product from a wider perspective than just the developers'. Linux has come along way especially under Ubuntu; possibly even surpassing MS's Vista(ok to be honest delete the possibly) however there are still a few things that probably could be fixed.
Just because Ubuntu/Linux is better overall does not need it is better in all areas, and some of those areas may just be were the wider market decides to measure which OS is better. Market research figures out where those areas are.
Not saying all development should be driven purely by the market research, but neither should all development be driven by the developers, or the current set of users for that matter.
The problem there is occasionally the drive wins or claims a draw by destroying the child as well.
Part of most if not all HDDs fall well under the "choking hazard" category.
Evidence of what?
You know it is often important to hide data that isn't involved with anything illegal. For example: Credit Card numbers, social security numbers and other personal information, trade secrets, personal journals and diaries that you don't want other people reading. There are many MANY reasons to want to wipe data that doesn't implicate you in a crime.
Anything digital is pirated?
So the short stories I write and post to the internet are pirated?
What about the digital photographs I take?
What about the drawings I make? ...they suck but that's another matter...
Though for the growing bulk, perhaps even majority of useful data you are right that if posted w/o consent of the copyright owner it is "pirated" or put correctly(piracy is a maritime law only!) intellectual property infringement.
As this bulk grows it means that there are more and more creations that can be considered similar to material that is part of someone's intellectual property. In order to relate to other people you have to relate to their experiences and many of those involve IP such as theme parks, brand name items, cartoons etc.
This means that gradually companies owning what amounts to non-expiring IP are taking ownership of society for their own non-personal(corps are not people) gains.
Any Intellectual Property(copyright, patent, trademark etc.) without a reasonably short expiration date is grossly unjust.
Every piece of IP should have an expiration date for when it will enter public domain and once set that date should NOT change even if new laws are passed. Renewable IP dates may be just provided that the renewal process allows for a certain end time for the property holder's rights and the longer the ownership the harder the renewal should be to prove(not to pay for).
Soon that could be true for the entire internet.
Thankfully Obama has appointed an FCC head who knows what Net Neutrality is.
Unfortunately even with him in office I think the day is coming when the Internet is as free and open to free speech as any major Radio or Television broadcast.
It is free speech ...as long as you never say anything illegal or offensive or that challenges those that set what "illegal or offensive" means.
If the downloader had the CD then why didn't the downloader simply rip from the CD?
There is no money coming to arrest real criminals.
4. Find out that the phisers are using a proxy to bounce off of.
5. Find that proxy is some poor schmuck who got hacked.
6. Realize poor schmuck is you.
7. Boom.
Elbonia uses trenches as we cannot afford your extravagant tubes.
Problem is with no-script you still have to decide if you trust or not-trust the site and if that level of trust you have is worth what the site is offering.
If the site offers a useful service which requires scripts you have to decide if it is worth the risk.
While in most cases it is easy to tell and block only those sites you trust. Those that you don't block may also allow third party scripts to be run such as in ads on the site.
that's the problem.
Pr0n + sticky = Success!
Fewer grooves to get sticky. Best option till they come up with the "PC" mouse.
Now to get this recognized for voting machines.
Though that will be harder because while more obvious it has far more money on the other side.